Table 3.
Adjusted Prevalencea of Using at Least 1 or at Least 5 Prescription Medications
| ≥1 Prescription Medication
|
≥5 Prescription Medications
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent (95% CI) | P-value | Percent (95% CI) | P-value | |
| Age (years)b | ||||
| 21–39 | 36.0 (30.8, 41.1) | <0.001 | 3.4 (1.8, 5.0) | <0.001 |
| 40–59 | 62.2 (55.4, 69.0) | 13.5 (10.2, 16.8) | ||
| 60–74 | 69.2 (63.6, 74.7) | 27.5 (23.5, 31.4) | ||
| Genderb | ||||
| Men | 49.0 (43.4, 54.6) | 0.001 | 10.8 (8.6, 13.0) | 0.002 |
| Women | 59.4 (53.9, 64.9) | 16.3 (13.5, 19.1) | ||
| Raceb | ||||
| Non-Hispanic white | 56.0 (51.1, 60.9) | 0.20 | 13.1 (10.9, 15.2) | <0.001 |
| Non-Hispanic black | 52.2 (43.6, 60.9) | 22.2 (13.6, 30.9) | ||
| Hispanic | 33.4 (21.2, 45.7) | 11.8 (1.9, 21.7) | ||
| Other | 41.0 (23.8, 58.2) | 10.5 (2.0, 19.0) | ||
| Educationc | ||||
| <High school | 64.5 (54.4, 73.4) | 0.39 | 10.1 (6.3, 15.9) | 0.02 |
| High school | 56.1 (33.3, 76.6) | 13.3 (4.4, 33.7) | ||
| Some college | 56.5 (35.7, 75.3) | 12.1 (4.6, 28.2) | ||
| ≥College | 55.2 (34.0, 74.6) | 7.2 (2.5, 18.7) | ||
| BMI (kg/m2)c | ||||
| <25 | 46.9 (38.3, 55.7) | <0.001 | 3.0 (1.6, 5.6) | <0.001 |
| ≥25 and <30 | 46.4 (31.4, 62.2) | 8.7 (2.5, 26.2) | ||
| ≥30 | 70.6 (53.8, 83.2) | 18.4 (5.9, 44.9) | ||
| Family incomec | ||||
| Don’t know | 62.9 (34.5, 84.5) | 0.19 | 6.8 (4.0, 11.3) | 0.001 |
| <25,000/year | 62.5 (41.3, 79.8) | 16.7 (4.5, 46.1) | ||
| 25,000–49,999/year | 56.1 (34.7, 75.5) | 16.9 (5.8, 40.0) | ||
| 50,000–99,999/year | 54.0 (34.7, 72.2) | 9.5 (3.0, 26.0) | ||
| ≥100,000/year | 55.3 (45.6, 64.6) | 9.6 (3.0, 27.0) | ||
| Smokingd | ||||
| Current | 51.3 (36.0, 66.4) | 0.11 | 12.9 (5.6, 27.0) | 0.004 |
| Former | 62.5 (46.8, 75.9) | 15.2 (7.8, 27.5) | ||
| Never | 53.8 (47.0, 60.5) | 8.1 (6.0, 10.8) | ||
Data from Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW), 2008–2010.
a
Weighted and adjusted for sampling design. Education, BMI, family income, and smoking also were adjusted for age (continuous), gender, and race (non-Hispanic white and other).
b
P-value for Rao-Scott chi-square test using design adjusted, survey weighted frequencies.
c
P-value for trend in ordinal independent variable tested using design adjusted, survey weighted logistic regression.
d
P-value for Wald chi-square test in nominal independent variables tested using design adjusted, survey weighted logistic regression.