Table 3 Relationship between age and number of medications used for patients prescribed medications potentially contributing to urinary symptoms
| Â | All | Storage symptoms | Voiding symptoms | Mixed urinary symptoms | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
user | nonuser | P value | user | nonuser | P value | user | nonuser | P value | user | nonuser | P value | |
Number of patients (%) | 1,365 (7.7%) | 16,459 | - | 234 (4.6%) | 4,893 | - | 907 (8.3%) | 10,060 | - | 224 (12.9%) | 1,506 | - |
Age (Mean ± SD) | 71.38 ± 13.28 | 70.45 ± 14.80 | 0.0244 | 77.35 ± 10.88 | 64.30 ± 20.34 | <0.0001 | 69.79 ± 13.58 | 72.81 ± 10.71 | <0.0001 | 71.63 ± 12.56 | 74.60 ± 10.27 | 0.0002 |
Number of prescription drugs (Mean ± SD) | 12.13 ± 6.78 | 5.67 ± 5.24 | <0.0001 | 9.95 ± 6.55 | 5.86 ± 5.53 | <0.0001 | 12.47 ± 6.82 | 5.43 ± 5.10 | <0.0001 | 13.05 ± 6.43 | 6.67 ± 5.08 | <0.0001 |