Effect of Age on the Kinds of Drugs Prescribed to Outpatients at the National Cardiovascular Center.

Abstract

The relationship between the kinds of drugs prescribed and age was investigated in 20990 outpatients (males; 11,716, females; 9,274) over the age of twenty at our hospital. No medicines for external application except for patch preparations for ischemic heart disease and injection preparations were caluculated in this studies. The following results were obtained: both preparation for the male and female outpatients increased with age. Although the mean kinds of drugs for patients in their twenties was 2.6, the mean kinds in patients in their eighties was 5.7. In addition, the number of outpatients with diabetes was increased significantly with age than in those without diabetes.