Prescribing Antidepressants and Benzodiazepines in the Netherlands: Is Chronic Physical Illness Involved?

Table 5

Frequency distribution of people with 6–12 benzodiazepines prescriptions per year according to the number of years with these prescriptions in % (absolute numbers between brackets).

	Number of years with 6–12 prescriptions
Grouping	0	1-2	3-4	5-6	Tot
Reference	93.8	4.0	1.2	1.0	100.0 (442.695)
Diabetes	93.4	4.2	1.3	1.2	100.0 (10.264)
Pulmonary	89.2	6.4	2.0	2.4	100.0 (18.523)
Cardiovascular	89.0	6.0	2.2	2.7	100.0 (169.764)
Multimorbidity	87.4	7.0	2.6	3.0	100.0 (37.534)
Total	92.1	4.7	1.6	1.6	100.0 (678.780)