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

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Table 8 Prescription medication usage in the last 2 weeks – pooled logit model estimations

Dependent variable	Hypertension-medication			Cardiovascular & cholesterol-medication
	dy/dx	Robust SE		dy/dx	Robust SE
Males
t2012	0.0265	0.0093	***	0.0143	0.0070	**
t2009	0.0153	0.0097		0.0025	0.0055
Age	0.0238	0.0016	***	0.0130	0.0011	***
Age squared	-0.0002	0.0000	***	-0.0001	0.0000	***
No. of children	-0.0066	0.0028	**	-0.0037	0.0016	**
1 if rural	-0.0004	0.0070		-0.0021	0.0043
1 if cohabiting	0.0245	0.0226		0.0206	0.0157
1 if married	0.0017	0.0151		0.0002	0.0097
1 if divorced	-0.0421	0.0127	***	-0.0111	0.0114
1 if widowed	-0.0009	0.0205		0.0416	0.0259
educ2	-0.0030	0.0087		-0.0092	0.0051	*
educ3	0.0291	0.0122	**	0.0028	0.0062
educ4	0.0004	0.0124		-0.0142	0.0073	*
educ5	0.0038	0.0134		0.0090	0.0105
N	4151			4250
Pseudo R-squared	0.206			0.206
Females
t2012	0.0203	0.0105	*	0.0101	0.0034	***
t2009	0.0166	0.0107		0.0036	0.0027
Age	0.0178	0.0021	***	0.0064	0.0007	***
Age squared	-0.0001	0.0000	***	0.0000	0.0000	***
No. of children	0.0025	0.0032		0.0002	0.0008
1 if rural	0.0186	0.0091	**	-0.0007	0.0020
1 if cohabiting	-0.0099	0.0209		-0.0007	0.0066
1 if married	-0.0035	0.0169		0.0018	0.0045
1 if divorced	-0.0098	0.0207		0.0094	0.0081
1 if widowed	0.0092	0.0223		0.0050	0.0063
educ2	-0.0214	0.0205		-0.0003	0.0054
educ3	-0.0150	0.0099		-0.0026	0.0027
educ4	-0.0327	0.0114	***	-0.0045	0.0034
educ5	-0.0429	0.0142	***	-0.0074	0.0051
n	4774			4856
Pseudo R-squared	0.184			0.214

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