Opioids and older adults: Increasing trends in opioid usage in a dental population compared to a National Database (NHANES).

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To examine self-reported opioid prevalence at a dental school clinic for patients ≥65 years old as compared to national data, comparing gender, ethnicity/race and older adult age groupings.

Methods and results

Self-reported prescription opioid medication use was extracted from the medical record for dental patients ≥65 years old who visited the school's general dental clinic (GDC) in 2012 or 2017. This data was compared to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data for 2011-2012 and 2017-18. There was a significant increase in prevalence of opioid use in adults ≥65 between 2012 (4.5%) and 2017 (6.5%) and for ages 65-79 (from 4.7% to 6.3%) and ≥80 (3.4% to 7.9%), women (4.8% to 7.0%), and African Americans (4.7% to 8.4%) in the GDC. Older adults at

SUBMITTER: Suarez-Durall P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9543923 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature