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From: Adverse drug reactions in older adults: a retrospective comparative analysis of spontaneous reports to the German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices

Fig. 3

Average number of ADR reports per 100,000 German inhabitants distributed by age and gender. *Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test < 0.05. The Fig. 3 shows the average number (+/− SD) of ADR reports per 100,000 German inhabitants distributed by age and gender [23]. The age groups were adapted for this analysis since inhabitants older than 85 years could not be stratified further in the database queried. All ADR reports (male, female and unknown gender) were considered for the calculation of the total average number of spontaneous reports per 100,000 inhabitants (grey bars). Thus, the grey bars possibly do not lie exactly in the middle between the blue and red bars for males and females

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