Table 2.
Sociodemographic characteristics of the main drug categories
| Factor | Total numbers | Main drug categories |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiovascular system | Respiratory system | Central nervous system | Endocrine system | Musculoskeletal system | ||
| Age (years) | ||||||
| 40–54 | 2738 | 1257 (46) | 441 (16) | 1447 (53) | 555 (20) | 378 (14) |
| 55–69 | 4963 | 3712 (75) | 1131 (23) | 2694 (54) | 1250 (25) | 1003 (20) |
| 70–84 | 4459 | 3807 (85) | 1154 (26) | 2824 (63) | 1010 (23) | 703 (16) |
| 85 and over | 715 | 608 (85) | 135 (19) | 513 (72) | 101 (14) | 59 (8) |
| Gender | ||||||
| Women | 6896 | 4813 (70) | 1510 (22) | 4528 (66) | 1351 (20) | 1260 (18) |
| Men | 5979 | 4571 (76) | 1351 (23) | 2950 (49) | 1565 (26) | 883 (15) |
| Deprivation* | ||||||
| Deprived status | 2609 | 1952 (75) | 780 (30) | 1705 (65) | 695 (27) | 474 (18) |
| Middle status | 7228 | 5308 (73) | 1538 (21) | 4184 (58) | 1616 (22) | 1223 (17) |
| Affluent status | 2203 | 1584 (72) | 354 (16) | 1185 (54) | 419 (19) | 377 (17) |
*Deprivation measured by Index of Multiple of Deprivation, figures in brackets refer to the percentage of each study factor subgroup.