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Lack of Association Between Medication Use and the Presence or Absence of Bacteriuria in Elderly Women
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Lack of Association Between Medication Use and the Presence or Absence of Bacteriuria in Elderly Women

Pamela S Tronetti, Edward J Gracely and Jerome A Boscia
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), v 38(11), pp 1199-1202
Nov 1990
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1990.tb01499.x
PMID: 2246456
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Abstract

This study was undertaken to determine if there is an association between medication use and the presence or absence of bacteriuria in elderly ambulatory women. Of 198 women who participated in three urine culture surveys (every 6 months) during the 18‐month study period, 66 (34.4%) had bacteriuria on at least one survey. Both univariate and multivariate analyses for the demographics, age, place of residence, and medication use (by drug class) revealed that only place of residence had a significant association with the presence or absence of bacteriuria. In this regard, bacteriuric subjects more commonly resided in the nursing home and less commonly lived in the apartment‐house complex compared with nonbacteriuric subjects (P < .05). Therefore, this study demonstrates that in elderly ambulatory women, medication use does not appear to be associated with the presence or absence of bacteriuria.

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