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Gender Differences in Medication Use: A Drug Utilization Study Based on Real World Data
A gender-specific drug utilization study was performed in the Campania region, Southern Italy. Data were based on outpatient drug prescriptions collected from administrative databases. The study population included all patients with at least one drug prescription in 2018. Prevalence was used as a me...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312791/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32492925 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113926 |
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author | Orlando, Valentina Mucherino, Sara Guarino, Ilaria Guerriero, Francesca Trama, Ugo Menditto, Enrica |
author_facet | Orlando, Valentina Mucherino, Sara Guarino, Ilaria Guerriero, Francesca Trama, Ugo Menditto, Enrica |
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description | A gender-specific drug utilization study was performed in the Campania region, Southern Italy. Data were based on outpatient drug prescriptions collected from administrative databases. The study population included all patients with at least one drug prescription in 2018. Prevalence was used as a measure to estimate the degree of exposure to drugs. A total of 3,899,360 patients were treated with at least one drug (54.2% females). The number of prescriptions was higher in females than males (55.6% vs. 44.4%). Females recorded higher prevalence for the majority of therapeutic groups (ATC II—anatomical therapeutic chemical), as well as for anti-inflammatory and antirheumatic products drugs (M01) (25.6% vs. 18.7%, risk ratio (RR): 0.73), beta blocking agents (C07) (14.5% vs. 11.6%, RR: 0.80), psychoanaleptics (N06) (7.1% vs. 3.7%, RR: 0.52), and antianemic preparations (B03) (2.8% vs. 6.7%, RR: 0.4). Higher prevalence was identified for males only for drugs used in diabetes (A10) (6.8% vs. 6.2%, RR: 1.1), particularly for biguanides (A10BA). Conversely, treatment duration was longer among males, explaining the higher mean cost per treated patient. This real-world study showed substantial gender differences in terms of medication use and duration of treatment and costs. These results are relevant to promoting and supporting the emerging role of precision and personalized medicine. |
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spelling | pubmed-73127912020-06-26 Gender Differences in Medication Use: A Drug Utilization Study Based on Real World Data Orlando, Valentina Mucherino, Sara Guarino, Ilaria Guerriero, Francesca Trama, Ugo Menditto, Enrica Int J Environ Res Public Health Article A gender-specific drug utilization study was performed in the Campania region, Southern Italy. Data were based on outpatient drug prescriptions collected from administrative databases. The study population included all patients with at least one drug prescription in 2018. Prevalence was used as a measure to estimate the degree of exposure to drugs. A total of 3,899,360 patients were treated with at least one drug (54.2% females). The number of prescriptions was higher in females than males (55.6% vs. 44.4%). Females recorded higher prevalence for the majority of therapeutic groups (ATC II—anatomical therapeutic chemical), as well as for anti-inflammatory and antirheumatic products drugs (M01) (25.6% vs. 18.7%, risk ratio (RR): 0.73), beta blocking agents (C07) (14.5% vs. 11.6%, RR: 0.80), psychoanaleptics (N06) (7.1% vs. 3.7%, RR: 0.52), and antianemic preparations (B03) (2.8% vs. 6.7%, RR: 0.4). Higher prevalence was identified for males only for drugs used in diabetes (A10) (6.8% vs. 6.2%, RR: 1.1), particularly for biguanides (A10BA). Conversely, treatment duration was longer among males, explaining the higher mean cost per treated patient. This real-world study showed substantial gender differences in terms of medication use and duration of treatment and costs. These results are relevant to promoting and supporting the emerging role of precision and personalized medicine. MDPI 2020-06-01 2020-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7312791/ /pubmed/32492925 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113926 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Orlando, Valentina Mucherino, Sara Guarino, Ilaria Guerriero, Francesca Trama, Ugo Menditto, Enrica Gender Differences in Medication Use: A Drug Utilization Study Based on Real World Data |
title | Gender Differences in Medication Use: A Drug Utilization Study Based on Real World Data |
title_full | Gender Differences in Medication Use: A Drug Utilization Study Based on Real World Data |
title_fullStr | Gender Differences in Medication Use: A Drug Utilization Study Based on Real World Data |
title_full_unstemmed | Gender Differences in Medication Use: A Drug Utilization Study Based on Real World Data |
title_short | Gender Differences in Medication Use: A Drug Utilization Study Based on Real World Data |
title_sort | gender differences in medication use: a drug utilization study based on real world data |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312791/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32492925 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17113926 |
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