Research Article
Evaluation of Potential Drug-Drug Interactions with Medications Prescribed to Geriatric Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital
Table 5
Predictors of D/Is (multivariate logistic regression analysis).
| Variables | Groups | Patients with D/Is | Patients without D/Is | Wald | Odds ratio (95% CI) | value |
| Age | <70 | 75 | 22 | 4.04 | 1.05 (1.00–1.097) | 0.04 | >70 | 99 | 13 |
| Gender | Male | 89 | 15 | 0.18 | 0.86(0.42–1.75) | 0.67 | Female | 85 | 20 |
| Number of comorbidities | 1 | 22 | 7 | 0.31 | 0.87 (0.54–1.42) | 0.58 | 2 | 52 | 15 | 3 | 75 | 10 | 4 | 21 | 2 | >4 | 4 | 1 |
| Type of comorbidity | Diabetes | 136 | 27 | 0.20 | 0.81 (0.31–2.11) | 0.66 | Hypertension | 130 | 23 | 1.71 | 1.92 (0.72–5.09) | 0.19 | CAD | 21 | 1 | 0.60 | 1.56 (0.51–4.82) | 0.44 | Dyslipidemia | 14 | 1 | 0.05 | 1.17 (0.31–4.46) | 0.82 | CVA | 51 | 7 | 0.38 | 0.76 (0.32–1.81) | 0.54 |
| Number of medications | <6 | 48 | 23 | 16.47 | 10.37 (3.35–32.11) | <0.001 | >6 | 126 | 12 |
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