Table 1.
Prevalence of Prescription Weight Loss Medication Use in the Previous 2 Years by Characteristics.
| Women | Men | |||||
| (N = 78127) | (N = 57308) | |||||
| n | % (SE) | OR* (95% CI) | n | % (SE) | OR* (95% CI) | |
| Characteristic | ||||||
| Age group (yrs) | ||||||
| ≥ 55 | 26787 | 1.61 (0.14) | 0.25 (0.20–0.32) | 16484 | 0.87 (0.13) | 0.92 (0.58–1.47) |
| 35–54 | 31256 | 5.54 (0.22) | 0.81 (0.71–0.93) | 24320 | 1.06 (0.09) | 1.03 (0.73–1.45) |
| 18–34 | 20084 | 4.80 (0.23) | 1.00 | 16504 | 0.64 (0.10) | 1.00 |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| Other | 2613 | 2.80 (0.72) | 0.69 (0.40–1.13) | 2245 | 0.26 (0.10) | 0.41 (0.20–0.86) |
| Hispanic | 6248 | 5.31 (0.48) | 1.12 (0.91–1.38) | 4447 | 1.26 (0.27) | 1.62 (1.02–2.57) |
| Non-Hispanic black | 7086 | 3.90 (0.35) | 0.66 (0.54–0.80) | 4027 | 0.58 (0.15) | 0.69 (0.40–1.19) |
| Non-Hispanic white | 62180 | 3.93 (0.12) | 1.00 | 46589 | 0.88 (0.07) | 1.00 |
| Body mass index (kg/m2) | ||||||
| ≥ 30 | 14296 | 10.2 (0.42) | 2.27 (1.98–2.60) | 10566 | 3.11 (0.26) | 6.24 (4.43–8.79) |
| 25.0–29.9 | 22005 | 4.88 (0.23) | 1.00 | 26036 | 0.51 (0.08) | 1.00 |
| <25.0 | 41826 | 1.45 (0.10) | 0.24 (0.20–0.28) | 20706 | 0.20 (0.04) | 0.41 (0.24–0.69) |
| Education level | ||||||
| College graduate | 19203 | 3.50 (0.23) | 1.13 (0.86–1.48) | 17525 | 0.92 (0.11) | 1.00 (0.61–1.64) |
| Some college | 22179 | 5.24 (0.25) | 1.62 (1.28–2.06) | 15151 | 0.93 (0.13) | 1.04 (0.63–1.69) |
| High school | 26614 | 3.83 (0.18) | 1.26 (1.00–1.59) | 17840 | 0.75 (0.10) | 0.85 (0.52–1.39) |
| <High school | 10026 | 3.00 (0.30) | 1.00 | 6734 | 0.92 (0.19) | 1.00 |
| Household income | ||||||
| Don't know/refused | 11947 | 2.14 (0.21) | 0.88 (0.69–1.13) | 6402 | 0.55 (0.18) | 0.90 (0.42–1.95) |
| ≥ $75,000 | 6859 | 5.13 (0.41) | 2.06 (1.60–2.65) | 7523 | 1.41 (0.19) | 2.24 (1.38–3.62) |
| $50–74,999 | 9044 | 5.24 (0.38) | 1.68 (1.34–2.10) | 8690 | 1.03 (0.15) | 1.51 (0.91–2.52) |
| $35–49,999 | 12108 | 5.19 (0.35) | 1.54 (1.24–1.92) | 10975 | 0.88 (0.16) | 1.28 (0.75–2.19) |
| $20–34,999 | 19766 | 3.91 (0.22) | 1.16 (0.97–1.39) | 14929 | 0.68 (0.10) | 0.99 (0.61–1.62) |
| <$20,000 | 18403 | 3.52 (0.24) | 1.00 | 8789 | 0.72 (0.16) | 1.00 |
| Marital status† | ||||||
| Married | 39608 | 4.28 (0.16) | 0.90 (0.79–1.04) | 33318 | 1.00 (0.08) | 1.02 (0.74–1.42) |
| Not married | 38428 | 3.72 (0.1) | 1.00 | 23923 | 0.65 (0.09) | 1.00 |
| Geographic region | ||||||
| South | 17887 | 5.11 (0.34) | 0.90 (0.77–1.07) | 14385 | 0.86 (0.17) | 1.3 (0.83–2.04) |
| Northeast | 26747 | 4.70 (0.18) | 0.47 (0.37–0.60) | 18007 | 1.11 (0.11) | 0.85 (0.50–1.44) |
| Midwest | 13508 | 2.32 (0.22) | 0.61 (0.51–0.73) | 10165 | 0.72 (0.12) | 0.71 (0.44–1.15) |
| West | 18524 | 3.48 (0.21) | 1.00 | 13839 | 0.62 (0.08) | 1.00 |
*Models are adjusted for age, race/ethnicity, body mass index, education level, household income, marital status, and geographic region.
†Marital status: respondents were classified as "not married if they were divorced, widowed, separated, never been married, member of an unmarried couple.