The co-use of conventional drugs and herbs among patients in Norwegian general practice: a cross-sectional study

Table 5 Adjusted odds ratio (adjOR) with 95% confidence intervals (95%C.l.) from multivariate regression models for co-use of herbal remedies and conventional drugs.

			95% C.I.
		adjOR	Lower	Upper	p-value ^A
Gender	Female vs male	2.0	1.0	4.0	0.043 ^B
Age grouped	Age < 30 vs:				0.000 ^B
	-30-39	0.8	0.3	2.6	0.715
	-40-49	0.2	0.0	0.9	0.034 ^B
	-50-59	1.3	0.4	3.8	0.665
	-60-69	2.8	1.0	8.3	0.058
	->70	3.3	1.2	9.3	0.023 ^B
Reasons for herb use	Treat an illness	4.2	1.3	13.4	0.015 ^B
Drugs	Analgesics	5.1	2.4	10.7	0.000 ^B
Drugs	Dermatological drugs	7.9	2.0	30.8	0.003 ^B
Adverse effects of the herbal remedy	Yes vs No:	37.5	2.8	503.4	0.006 ^B
Polyherbacy	None or one herb vs >2 herbs:	12.1	5.8	25.4	0.000 ^B

^AP-value for multivariable logistic regression with co-use as the dependent variable. Analysed with regression analysis and Forward method in SPSS.
^BSignificantly different with p < 0.05.

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