Table 6: Number of medications used in treating depression taken by patients with a diagnosis of depression.
| No. of medications | No. (%) of patients |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men n = 12 748 |
Women n = 28 526 |
Total n = 41 274 |
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| 0 |
2 222 |
(17.4) |
(4 083 |
(14.3) |
6 305 |
(15.3) |
| 1 |
6 155 |
(48.3) |
13 691 |
(48.0) |
19 846 |
(48.1) |
| 2 |
2 889 |
(22.7) |
6 746 |
(23.7) |
9 635 |
(23.3) |
| ≥ 3 | 1 482 | (11.6) | 4 006 | (14.0) | 5 488 | (13.3) |