Table 1.
Total Sample | Antidepressant Use | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No | Short-term | Long-Term | Sig | |||
N | Wt % | Wt% | Wt% | W% | ||
ALL | 10,134 | 100.0 | 81.5 | 10.3 | 8.3 | |
General Health | *** | |||||
Excellent | 1,954 | 20.2 | 89.4 | 6.7 | 3.9 | |
Very good | 3,226 | 32.8 | 84.8 | 8.9 | 6.2 | |
Good | 3,230 | 31.3 | 80.8 | 10.3 | 8.9 | |
Fair | 1,336 | 12.4 | 68.7 | 15.9 | 15.3 | |
Poor | 349 | 3.2 | 53.6 | 24.1 | 22.3 | |
Functional Status: ADL a | *** | |||||
Not limited | 7,719 | 78.7 | 84.6 | 8.8 | 6.6 | |
1–2 | 1,739 | 15.7 | 72.1 | 14.5 | 13.4 | |
3 and above | 667 | 5.6 | 63.5 | 19.3 | 17.2 | |
Body Mass Index Category | ** | |||||
Under/Normal | 4,540 | 43.5 | 81.1 | 11.1 | 7.7 | |
Overweight | 3,951 | 39.8 | 82.7 | 9.2 | 8.1 | |
Obesity | 1,578 | 16.7 | 79.2 | 10.7 | 10.1 | |
Smoking Status | ||||||
Current smoker | 1,116 | 11.8 | 79.4 | 12.1 | 8.5 | |
Past smoker | 4,761 | 47.2 | 82.1 | 9.7 | 8.2 | |
Never smoked | 4,243 | 41.0 | 81.4 | 10.4 | 8.2 | |
Hypertension | *** | |||||
No | 4,701 | 47.6 | 84.3 | 9.3 | 6.3 | |
Yes | 5,433 | 52.4 | 78.8 | 11.1 | 10.1 | |
Depression | *** | |||||
No | 9,191 | 91.1 | 86.4 | 8.2 | 5.4 | |
Yes | 625 | 5.8 | 31.4 | 30.9 | 37.6 |
Note: Analytic sample consists of Medicare beneficiaries who were followed for 3-years and were first interviewed either in 1999, or 2000 or,2001 or 2002 or 2003, lived in the community.
Asterisks represent significant group differences between antidepressant use and subject characteristics based on chi-square tests. Long-term use represents antidepressant prescriptions reported for all 3-years; short-term use represents antidepressant prescriptions reported in one or two years.
ADL: Activities of daily living;
Wt: Weighted. HS: High School
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