Table 6.

Level of morbidity in patients prescribed hypnotics/anxiolytics according to age and sex

Age groups	Patients with no chronic disease			Patients with one chronic disease			Multimorbid patients – two or more chronic diseases				ORs (with 95 % CIs) for the likelihood of being prescribed a hypnotic and/or an anxiolytic when multimorbid
	No of patients	Men	Women	No of patients	Men	Women	No of patients	Men	Women	Prevalence of Multimorbidity (%)	All patients	Men	Women
<1–19	182	72	110	312	167	145	354	150	204	42	6.7 (5.8–7.7)	5.8 (4.7–7.1)	7.7 (6.4–9.3)
20–29	238	84	154	779	337	442	1,731	573	1,158	63	6.5 (6.0–7.1)	6.5 (5.7–7.4)	6.3 (5.6–7.0)
30–39	222	93	129	875	388	487	2,974	999	1,975	73	7.1 (6.6–7.6)	6.8 (6.0–7.6)	6.8 (6.2–7.5)
40–49	140	51	89	687	288	399	4,054	1,287	2,767	83	7.7 (7.1–8.3)	7.2 (6.3–8.1)	7.3 (6.6–8.1)
50–59	126	52	74	518	225	293	5,510	1,817	3,693	89	9.4 (8.6–10.2)	8.0 (7.0–9.1)	9.7 (8.6–10.9)
60–69	66	26	40	302	130	172	5,014	1,782	3,232	93	13.4 (12.0–15.0)	10.9 (9.2–12.9)	15.6 (13.5–18.1)
70–79	30	11	19	135	59	76	3,783	1,318	2,465	96	20.0 (17.0–23.6)	15.0 (11.7–19.2)	25.1 (20.3–31.2)
80+	14	7	7	85	26	59	2,795	980	1,815	97	45.6 (37.2–56.0)	41.2 (28.9–58.7)	51.2 (39.7–66.0)
Total	1,018	396	622	3,693	1,620	2,073	26,215	8,906	17,309	85	14.9 (14.4–15.4)	12.7 (12.0–13.3)	16.0 (15.4–16.7)

All patients using a hypnotic, an anxiolytic or both either with no chronic condition, one chronic condition, or categorised as being multimorbid, with the odds ratios and 95 % confidence intervals for the likelihood of being prescribed a hypnotic and/or an anxiolytic when multimorbid