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Table 2 PBS medicines dispensed in women aged 15 to 44 in 2013 by pregnancy risk category

From: Use of prescription medicines in Australian women of child-bearing age

Pregnancy risk category

Dispensings (Total N = 1282720)

Unique women (% of the total N = 188412)

Mean age (years)

A

270169 (21.1 %)

48.6 %

29.9

B1

95685 (7.5 %)

23.0 %

30.6

B2

110093 (8.6 %)

11.9 %

31.1

B3

298430 (23.3 %)

52.8 %

30.4

C

343917 (26.8 %)

28.9 %

32.0

D

118943 (9.3 %)

15.0 %

31.3

X

7901 (0.6 %)

1.2 %

24.9*

  1. The percentages of dispenses sum up to 97.2 % as we categorized only medicines with 400 or more dispensings in 2013
  2. The percentages of unique women sum up to over 100 as many women had medicines from multiple categories
  3. *Significantly younger than women dispensed medicines from any one of the remaining risk categories (student T-test, p < 0.0001)