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Sex Differences in Medication and Primary Healthcare Use before and after Spousal Bereavement at Older Ages in Denmark: Nationwide Register Study of over 6000 Bereavements
Background. The study aimed to examine sex differences in healthcare use before and after widowhood to investigate whether reduced healthcare use among widowers compared with widows may partially explain excess mortality and more adverse health outcomes among men than women after spousal loss. Metho...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3157079/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21860795 http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/678289 |
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author | Oksuzyan, Anna Jacobsen, Rune Glaser, Karen Tomassini, Cecilia Vaupel, James W. Christensen, Kaare |
author_facet | Oksuzyan, Anna Jacobsen, Rune Glaser, Karen Tomassini, Cecilia Vaupel, James W. Christensen, Kaare |
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description | Background. The study aimed to examine sex differences in healthcare use before and after widowhood to investigate whether reduced healthcare use among widowers compared with widows may partially explain excess mortality and more adverse health outcomes among men than women after spousal loss. Methods. All individuals alive and aged at least 60 years in 1996 and who became widowed in the period from 1996 to 2003 were selected from the 5% sample of the total Danish population and all Danish twins. The healthcare use was assessed as the average daily all-cause and major system-specific medication use and the average annual number of visits to general physicians (GPs). Results. The average daily use of all-cause and major system-specific medications, as well as the number of GP visits increased over the period from 1 year before and up to 5 years after a spouse's death, but there were no sex-specific patterns in the trajectories of medication use and number of GP visits after conjugal loss. Conclusion. We found little support for the hypothesis that reduced healthcare use contributes to the explanation of more adverse health outcomes after conjugal loss in men compared with women in Denmark. |
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spelling | pubmed-31570792011-08-22 Sex Differences in Medication and Primary Healthcare Use before and after Spousal Bereavement at Older Ages in Denmark: Nationwide Register Study of over 6000 Bereavements Oksuzyan, Anna Jacobsen, Rune Glaser, Karen Tomassini, Cecilia Vaupel, James W. Christensen, Kaare J Aging Res Research Article Background. The study aimed to examine sex differences in healthcare use before and after widowhood to investigate whether reduced healthcare use among widowers compared with widows may partially explain excess mortality and more adverse health outcomes among men than women after spousal loss. Methods. All individuals alive and aged at least 60 years in 1996 and who became widowed in the period from 1996 to 2003 were selected from the 5% sample of the total Danish population and all Danish twins. The healthcare use was assessed as the average daily all-cause and major system-specific medication use and the average annual number of visits to general physicians (GPs). Results. The average daily use of all-cause and major system-specific medications, as well as the number of GP visits increased over the period from 1 year before and up to 5 years after a spouse's death, but there were no sex-specific patterns in the trajectories of medication use and number of GP visits after conjugal loss. Conclusion. We found little support for the hypothesis that reduced healthcare use contributes to the explanation of more adverse health outcomes after conjugal loss in men compared with women in Denmark. SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2011 2011-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3157079/ /pubmed/21860795 http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/678289 Text en Copyright © 2011 Anna Oksuzyan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Oksuzyan, Anna Jacobsen, Rune Glaser, Karen Tomassini, Cecilia Vaupel, James W. Christensen, Kaare Sex Differences in Medication and Primary Healthcare Use before and after Spousal Bereavement at Older Ages in Denmark: Nationwide Register Study of over 6000 Bereavements |
title | Sex Differences in Medication and Primary Healthcare Use before and after Spousal Bereavement at Older Ages in Denmark: Nationwide Register Study of over 6000 Bereavements |
title_full | Sex Differences in Medication and Primary Healthcare Use before and after Spousal Bereavement at Older Ages in Denmark: Nationwide Register Study of over 6000 Bereavements |
title_fullStr | Sex Differences in Medication and Primary Healthcare Use before and after Spousal Bereavement at Older Ages in Denmark: Nationwide Register Study of over 6000 Bereavements |
title_full_unstemmed | Sex Differences in Medication and Primary Healthcare Use before and after Spousal Bereavement at Older Ages in Denmark: Nationwide Register Study of over 6000 Bereavements |
title_short | Sex Differences in Medication and Primary Healthcare Use before and after Spousal Bereavement at Older Ages in Denmark: Nationwide Register Study of over 6000 Bereavements |
title_sort | sex differences in medication and primary healthcare use before and after spousal bereavement at older ages in denmark: nationwide register study of over 6000 bereavements |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3157079/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21860795 http://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/678289 |
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