Table 5. Use of Medicines.

	Sex		Age in Years					Years Since Diabetes Diagnosis				All
	Female	Male	<40	40–49	50–59	60–69	70+	<2	3 to 5	6 to 10	>10
N (DM)
N (MCG)
Percentage of Persons Taking at Least 1 Medicine
DM	95.57	93.31	91.57	94.22	94.24	96.10	97.17	90.15	95.08	96.85	98.26	94.78
MC	30.63	19.33	13.34	17.42	29.85	32.41	39.13					26.66
Diff.	64.94	73.98	78.23	76.80	64.40	63.69	58.04					68.12
Ratio	3.12	4.83	6.86	5.41	3.16	2.96	2.48					3.56
Mean Number of Medicines Taken, if Taking Any
DM	2.71	2.42	1.66	2.18	2.56	3.01	3.44	2.23	2.50	2.66	3.10	2.60
MC	1.66	1.47	1.06	1.30	1.53	1.79	1.96					1.60
Diff.	1.05	0.95	0.59	0.88	1.03	1.22	1.47					1.00
Ratio	1.63	1.64	1.56	1.68	1.67	1.68	1.75					1.62
Mean Annual Number of Medicines Taken per Person (among all Study Subjects)
DM	2.61	2.28	1.52	2.07	2.44	2.92	3.36	2.02	2.40	2.59	3.06	2.49
MC	0.53	0.28	0.16	0.24	0.45	0.61	0.81					0.44
Diff.	2.07	2.00	1.37	1.83	1.99	2.31	2.55					2.05
Ratio	4.88	8.18	9.73	8.62	5.46	4.79	4.13					5.61

MC means age- and sex-matched comparison subjects. Diff. means DM−MC. Ratio means DM/MC. In this table, medicines are defined to exclude herbs and other traditional medicines. See text for description of statistical significance.