Table 1_Polypharmacy as an ordered indicator of therapeutic complexity in a national cardi

151 adults aged 40 years or older were stratified into three polypharmacy categories based on medication count. The dataset, created by Jacek Gonos, explores associations between clinical characteristics, comorbidity structure, and medication burden within the Polish Prophylaxis 40 PLUS programme. It was last updated on 2026-04-21.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between circulatory system diseases and polypharmacy based on ICD-10 codes mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing the impact of heart rhythm normalization on medication count using the reported odds ratios.
• Investigating the association between sensory or nervous system diseases and polypharmacy based on the described ICD-10 blocks.
• Assessing the role of baseline diastolic blood pressure as a predictor of medication burden.
• Exploring the link between educational attainment and polypharmacy as an exploratory variable.

Strengths

• Dataset includes 151 patient records with detailed clinical and demographic variables.
• Analysis used bootstrap resampling (B=200) to assess parameter stability, suggesting methodological rigor.
• Specific odds ratios are reported for key predictors like circulatory diseases (OR 2.3–2.6) and heart rhythm normalization (OR 6.0–8.4).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 29.2 KB, limiting statistical power and generalizability.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Jacek Gonos.

Collection Method

Data likely originates from the Polish Prophylaxis 40 PLUS national prevention programme, analyzed using ordinal regression.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-21 05:34:43; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Poland