Furthermore, we observed no differences in the diagnoses for which antibiotics were prescribed (data not shown).
In fact, among the 37 participants deemed surgical candidates by the surgeons, only one (3%) was prescribed NSAIDs by the orthopaedic surgeons while among the patients not requiring surgery, 28 (34%) were prescribed NSAIDs (data not shown).
Among subjects prescribed weak short-acting opioids, all (100%) were prescribed hydrocodone-acetaminophen (data not shown).
In the Norwegian prescription database the number of hormone treatment users is high compared with the number of prescribed daily doses (data not shown), suggesting that many women use hormone treatment for a short period only.
Oral theophylline was prescribed as COPD treatment for 44.6% of healthcare users, and 21.7% of users were also prescribed an oral corticosteroid (data not shown).
30 In the present study, only 2.8% of patients had been prescribed concomitant statin-fibrate therapy (data not shown).
Interestingly, this result still remains significant when only adjusting for one of these measures or when excluding antidementia drugs as well as analgesics from the number of prescribed medications in model 3 (data not shown), underlining the robustness of our findings.
About half of the patients were prescribed acyclovir, while the other half received valacyclovir (data not shown), and a smaller number were prescribed famciclovir.
Among subjects prescribed antiepileptics, the most commonly prescribed medications were gabapentin (61.3%) and pregabalin (38.7%, data not shown).
These SCN volume estimates were normalized to volume calculations based on Nissl staining, and show no significant difference between the volume prescribed by little SAAS vs. Nissl staining (p>0.95; data not shown).
