Co-prescription patterns of cardiovascular preventive treatments: a cross-sectional study in the Aragon worker' health study (Spain).

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To identify cardiovascular disease (CVD) preventive treatments combinations, among them and with other drugs, and to determine their prevalence in a cohort of Spanish workers.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

Aragon Workers' Health Study (AWHS) cohort in Spain.

Participants

5577 workers belonging to AWHS cohort. From these subjects, we selected those that had, at least, three prescriptions of the same therapeutic subgroup in 2014 (n=4605).

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Drug consumption was obtained from the Aragon Pharmaceutical Consumption Registry (Farmasalud). In order to know treatment utilisation, prevalence analyses were conducted. Frequent item set mining techniques were applied to identify drugs co-prescription patterns.

SUBMITTER: Aguilar-Palacio I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6500350 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature