Figure 4.

The cumulative incidence of time to first short-acting benzodiazepine prescription dispensed among patients initiating hemodialysis (n=69,368) between 2013 and 2014 differed by race and sex. (A) Cumulative incidence of short-acting benzodiazepine. Approximately 18.1% of white women, 12.5% of white men, 9.5% of nonwhite women, and 6.1% of nonwhite men had used a short-acting benzodiazepine within 6 months of initiating dialysis. (B) Cumulative incidence of long-acting benzodiazepine. Approximately 5.1% of white women, 3.4% of white men, 2.3% of nonwhite women, and 1.8% of nonwhite men had used a long-acting benzodiazepine within 6 months of initiating dialysis.