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Table 7 Prescription medication usage in the last 2 weeks – fixed-effects model estimations

From: Economic conditions, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease: analysis of the Icelandic economic collapse

Dependent variable

Hypertension-medication

 

Cardiovascular & cholesterol-medication

 
 

dy/dx

Robust SE

 

dy/dx

Robust SE

 

Males

 t2012

-0.0506

0.0226

**

-0.0303

0.0238

 

 t2009

-0.0157

0.0110

 

-0.0225

0.0100

**

 Age squared

0.0003

0.0001

***

0.0002

0.0001

***

 No. of children

-0.0030

0.0215

 

-0.0116

0.0200

 

 1 if rural

-0.0084

0.0189

 

-0.0378

0.0277

 

 1 if cohabiting

0.0061

0.0138

 

0.0054

0.0194

 

 1 if married

0.0217

0.0257

 

0.0312

0.0283

 

 1 if divorced

-0.0877

0.0733

 

0.0300

0.0387

 

 1 if widowed

-0.0743

0.0696

 

0.0224

0.0540

 

 n

4163

 

4260

 

Females

 t2012

-0.0035

0.0227

 

-0.0564

0.0193

***

 t2009

0.0076

0.0105

 

-0.0257

0.0088

***

 Age squared

0.0001

0.0001

***

0.0002

0.0000

***

 No. of children

-0.0239

0.0101

**

-0.0115

0.0049

**

 1 if rural

0.0164

0.0195

 

0.0097

0.0140

 

 1 if cohabiting

-0.0004

0.0110

 

-0.0118

0.0113

 

 1 if married

0.0071

0.0182

 

-0.0075

0.0164

 

 1 if divorced

-0.0154

0.0311

 

0.0375

0.0264

 

 1 if widowed

0.0181

0.0431

 

0.0633

0.0566

 

 N

4790

 

4872

 
  1. Sample weights are applied. *p < 0.1, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01