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Americans born in 2019 can expect to spend nearly half their lives taking prescription drugs, according to a new study conducted by Jessica Ho, associate professor of sociology and demography at Penn State. Credit: jorgeantonio / Getty Images. All Rights Reserved.

Americans will spend half their lives taking prescription drugs, study finds

Fig 5. Circosplots of co-medication pairs with ORs >1 with known (left) or unknown (right) DDIs. Relations between an index drug and its co-medication are marked by connecting bands, with the width of each band proportional to the number of pairs found between two therapeutic groups (the thinnest ribbon represents one pair, e.g. C07-P01 in the set of known DDIs and A10-N04 in the set of unknown DDIs). The outer ring corresponds to the anatomical main groups, and the inner ring corresponds to the therapeutic groups. Colour of connecting bands corresponds to the anatomical group of the co-medication. See colour legend in Fig 1. The most abundant known DDI relations were observed between N05-N06, N05-N05 and B01-J01. Unknown DDIs mostly involved the therapeutic groups J01 (e.g. J01-A10), B05 (e.g. B05-N02), A12 (e.g. A12-R03), A10 (e.g. B01-A10), R03 (e.g. J01-R03) and M05 (e.g. B01-M05). DDI: drug-drug interaction. OR: odds ratio.

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