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. 2022 May 2;12(5):e057823. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-057823

Table 2.

Distribution of unweighted Rx-Risk comorbidity scores* in individuals aged 65 years and older in Norway in 2013† by sex and history of hip fracture.

Men with no hip fracture
N=320 694
Men with hip fracture
N=8776
Women with no hip fracture
N=381 349
Women with hip fracture
N=25 149
Mean (SD) 3.9 (2.5) 4.6 (2.6) 4.0 (2.5) 4.8 (2.6)
Range 0–18 0–17 0–20 0–17
N (%) n % n % n % n %
0 16 773 5.2 273 3.1 20 206 5.3 640 2.5
1 42 701 13.3 759 8.6 47 958 12.6 1830 7.3
2 46 238 14.4 956 10.9 55 695 14.6 2519 10.0
3 50 392 15.7 1257 14.3 58 114 15.2 3371 13.4
4 48 686 15.2 1291 14.7 54 950 14.4 3619 14.4
5 40 500 12.6 1199 13.7 46 525 12.2 3638 14.5
6 29 610 9.2 1042 11.9 35 958 9.4 3097 12.3
7 19 598 6.1 793 9.0 25 214 6.6 2446 9.7
8 11 947 3.7 489 5.6 16 425 4.3 1702 6.8
9 6953 2.2 343 3.9 9857 2.6 1046 4.2
10 3842 1.2 209 2.4 5464 1.4 644 2.6
11 1933 0.6 83 0.9 2750 0.7 315 1.3
≥12 1521 0.5 82 0.9 2233 0.6 282 1.1

*Defined as the number of different comorbidity categories from which an individual retrieved one or more drugs in 2013, possible range 0–46.

†Conditioned on survival through 2013.