Prevalence of Antihypertensive, Antidiabetic, and Dyslipidemic Prescription Medication Use Among Children and Adolescents

Prevalence of antihypertensive, antidiabetic, and dyslipidemic prescription medication use among children and adolescents.

OBJECTIVE To document trends in the use of prescription medications indicated for types 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and dyslipidemia among children and adolescents. DESIGN Serial, cross-sectional study. SETTING Age-eligible children and adolescents with prescription drug benefits managed by CVS Caremark, a pharmacy benefits manager. PARTICIPANTS Commercially insured US childr...

Medical use, nonmedical use of prescription medication and risk behaviour among Croatian adolescents.

BACKGROUND At the drug scene some major shifts were observed, more and more reports highlighted the abuse of prescription medication. Despite the importance of controlled medication in treatment child and adolescent disorders, this increase may be a factor which influence misuse and nonmedical use of prescribed drugs among adolescents. SUBJECT AND METHODS Croatian data from ESPAD survey in 20...

Overall Prescription Medication Use Among Adults :

232 WMJ • DECEMBER 2014 medication in the past month increased from 43% to 48% during the last decade; the proportion of those using at least 5 prescription medications increased from 6% to 11%, and 53% of women and 43% men used at least 1 prescription medication in the past month.1 Prescription drug spending was estimated at $234.1 billion in 2008, more than double the spending in 1999.1 The r...

Prevalence of food addiction among Iranian children and adolescents: Associations with sociodemographic and anthropometric indices

Background: Food addiction has been defined as consuming palatable foods leading to addictive-like behaviors. Little studies have assayed food addiction in children and adolescents. Thus, we aimed at identifying the prevalence of food addiction and the relationship between food addiction, sociodemographic and anthropometric indicators among children and adolescents in southwestern Iran.  ...

The Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in Weight Groups among Children and Adolescents of Ahvaz