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. 2019 Aug 4;6(3):84. doi: 10.3390/medicines6030084

Table 1.

Demographics.

Demographic With Pruritus within 3 Months of Drug
(n = 9802)
Without Pruritus After Receiving Drug
(n = 1,085,404)
p-Value * p-Value **
Gender, (%)
Male 30.6 42.4 <0.001 <0.001
Female 69.4 57.6 <0.001
Age, (%)
18–29 8.9 10.9 <0.001 <0.001
30–39 11.8 13.8 <0.001
40–49 12.6 13.5 0.009
50–59 19.1 17.6 <0.001
60–69 20.4 18.8 <0.001
70–79 16.3 14.8 <0.001
80–89 8.4 7.6 0.003
90–99 2.4 2.8 0.017
100+ 0.1 0.2 0.027
Race (%)
White/Caucasian 48.1 62.8 <0.001 <0.001
Black/African American 38.9 23.1 <0.001
Asian 4.2 4.3 0.627
American Indian/Alaska Native 0.4 0.3 0.072
Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander 0.2 0.1 0.002
Other 7.7 7.4 0.259
Unknown 0.5 1.8 <0.001
Declined to answer 0.2 0.3 0.071

* Calculated by the chi-squared test for overall difference in proportions. ** Pairwise comparisons calculated using the student’s t-test with Bonferroni correction for significance (p < 0.003).