Evaluation of Potential Drug-Drug Interactions with Medications Prescribed to Geriatric Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital

Table 4

Comparison of comorbidities between patients with and without polypharmacy.

Variables	Number of medications >6	Number of medications <6	t value	value
Age (years)	71.36 ± 7.36	70.93 ± 8.93	0.35	0.73
Number of comorbidities	2.7 ± 0.97	2.28 ± 0.83	3.12	0.002

Values are expressed as mean ± SD. Student “t” test. Significant.