Prescription-based prediction of baseline mortality risk among older men.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding the association between patients' history of prescribed medications and mortality rate could optimize characterization of baseline risk when the Charlson Comorbidity Index is insufficient.

Methods

Using a Swedish cohort of men selected randomly as controls to men with prostate cancer diagnosed 2007-2013, we estimated the association between medications prescribed during the previous year and mortality rates, using Cox regression stratified for age.

Results

Among the 326,450 older men with median age of 69 years included in this study, 73% were categorized as free of comorbidity according to the Charlson Comorbidity Index; however, 84% had received at least one prescription during the year preceding the follow-up. This was associated with a 60%

SUBMITTER: Gedeborg R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7595371 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature