Secondary RLS has been associated with other medical conditions and medication usage.
The two cohorts were otherwise similar in demographic composition, medical comorbidities and medication usage at inclusion.
Participants were screened to exclude psychiatric or systemic medical disorders and current medication usage.
It is also important to note that we could only ascertain medication usage from GP datasets, therefore this estimate is undervalued without the use of hospital data.
The 80% MPR is a recognized level that suggests that there are very few days without drugs on hand, and consequently fairly continuous medication usage.
Furthermore, comparisons between those with and without a reported episode of HMA are made for medication usage to determine if prescription of a particular class of medication or prescriptions of combination of medications is associated with severe hypoglycemia.
See Table 1 for medication usage.
Differential clinical characteristics, medication usage, and treatment response of bipolar disorder in the US versus The Netherlands and Germany.
Medication usage was also significantly improved (p =.005) at the time of follow-up.
Exercise and medication usage was similar between groups at 12 months.
