Table 1.

Socio‐demographic characteristics, comorbidities in cases and controls among persons aged 65 years and older in Sweden 2008–2013 1 year before the date of death and drug use at case date in cases (n = 286 092) and their corresponding controls (n = 1 430 460)

Socio‐demographic characteristics	Cases	Controls	Total
Years of age, mean	83.9	83.9	83.9
Gender: female %	57	57	57
Primary and lower secondary school	58	54	55
Upper secondary school	27	29	29
Universities and university colleges	9.8	13	12
No information	4.6	3,3	3,5
Mean number of outpatient visits in specialized care	3,2	1,8	2,0
Mean number inpatient days	7,7	2,0	2,9
Comorbidities
Cancer %	22	8,1	10
Cerebrovascular disease %	12	4,1	5,4
Congestive heart failure %	17	5,6	7,4
Chronic pulmonary disease %	8,2	2,9	3,7
Dementia, %	18	5,5	7,5
Diabetes %	17	11,0	12
Metastatic carcinoma %	9,9	0,6	2,1
Myocardial infarction %	9,9	4,0	5,0
Mild liver disease %	0,7	0,1	0,2
Moderate or severe liver disease %	0,3	0,0	0,1
Paraplegia or hemiplegia %	1,6	0,3	0,5
Peptic ulcer disease %	1,3	0,5	0,6
Peripheral vascular disease %	4,3	1,6	2,0
Renal disease %	5,3	1,6	2,2
Rheumatic disease %	2,7	1,6	1,8
Drug use at case date
Mean number of drugs used, n	5,6	3,8	4,1
Antidepressant drugs %	25,0	13,0	15
No TdP labelling	0,7	0,5	0,5
Conditional TdP risk	4,4	2,7	3,0
Possible TdP risk	8,5	3,5	4,3
Known TdP risk	14,0	7,2	8,3
Antipsychotic drug use %	8,2	2,0	3,1
No TdP labelling	1,1	0,4	0,5
Conditional TdP risk	5,0	1,5	2,0
Known TdP risk	2,5	0,3	0,7
Any other drug %	91	84	85
No TdP labelling	91	83	84
Conditional TdP risk	38	21	24
Possible TdP risk	2,9	3,7	3,6
Known TdP risk	2,9	2,1	2,2