Trends of Antihypertensive, Antidiabetic, and Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Use among the Health Workers Cohort Study, Mexico 2004 to 2018
Table 1
Cohort sociodemographic and clinical characteristics across the three assessments.
Characteristic
2004–2006 N = 9,522
2010–2013 N = 2,975
value
2017-2018 N = 1,299
value
Gender
Female
6,615 (69.5)
1524 (51.2)
0.0001
977 (75.2)
0.0001
Male
2,907 (30.5)
1451 (48.8)
322 (24.8)
Age categories
18–40 yr
4,324 (45.4)
888 (30.9)
0.0001
224 (17.3)
0.0001
41–60 yr
3,912 (41.1)
1,392 (48.5)
555 (42.9)
61–80 yr
1,222 (12.8)
557 (19.4)
482 (37.2)
>81 yr
64 (0.7)
35 (1.2)
34 (2.6)
Education degree
Elementary school or below
2194 (23.0)
610 (20.5)
0.0001
290 (22.3)
0.02
High school/technical trainee
1556 (16.3)
436 (14.6)
249 (19.1)
Bachelor of above
3884 (40.8)
838 (28.2)
486 (37.4)
Data not available
1888 (19.9)
1091 (36.7)
274 (21.2)
Job title
Physician
151 (1.6)
53 (1.8)
0.0001
25 (1.9)
0.0001
Nurse
465 (4.9)
76 (2.6)
34 (2.6)
Administrative
930 (9.8)
125 (4.2)
53 (4.0)
BMI categories (kg/m2)
Healthy weight (min—24.9)
3496 (38.8)
969 (35.9)
0.016
429 (33.6)
0.0001
Overweight (25.0–29.9)
3766 (41.8)
1160 (42.9)
517 (40.4)
Obesity (30.0—max)
1756 (19.4)
572 (21.2)
332 (26)
Comorbidities
Hypertension
1882 (19.8)
725 (24.4)
0.0001
394 (30.3)
0.0001
No treatment
884 (47.0)
171 (23.6)
0.0001
55 (14.0)
0.0001
Medication treatment
998 (53.0)
554 (76.4)
339 (86.0)
Type 2 diabetes
668 (7.0)
325 (10.9)
0.0001
167 (12.8)
0.0001
No treatment
309 (46.3)
73 (22.5)
0.0001
74 (19.0)
0.0001
Medication treatment
359 (53.7)
252 (77.5)
317 (81.0)
Musculoskeletal disorders
5362 (56.3)
1559 (52.4)
0.0001
688 (52.9)
0.15
Medication pain treatment
1931 (36.0)
647 (41.5)
0.0001
327 (47.5)
0.0001
Chronic renal disease
75 (0.8)
16 (0.5)
0.098
7 (0.5)
0.21
BMI, body mass index. Variables showed as frequencies (Percentage). Comparison to baseline characteristics (2010 and 2017 vs 2004) were compared using Fisher’s exact test.
