Gender differences in physical morbidity in opioid agonist treatment patients: population-based cohort studies from the Czech Republic and Norway

Table 2 Total prevalence of somatic diseases in opioid maintenance treatment patients in the Czech Republic and Norway during 2010–2019 by gender

		Czech Republic (N = 4,280)					Norway (N = 11,389)
		Men (n = 2,992)		Women (n = 1,288)			Men (n = 8,006)		Women (n = 3,383)
Chapter	ICD-10	n	%	n	%	p-value	n	%	n	%	p-value
Infectious/parasitic diseases	A00-B99	2339	78.2	1061	82.4	0.002	5236	65.4	2300	68.0	0.008
Neoplasms	C00-D48	490	16.4	391	30.4	< 0.001	958	12.0	739	21.8	< 0.001
Blood diseases	D50-D89	355	11.9	329	25.5	< 0.001	934	11.7	529	15.6	< 0.001
Endocrine/metabolic diseases	E00-E90	679	22.7	417	32.4	< 0.001	2222	27.8	1085	32.1	< 0.001
Nervous system diseases	G00-G99	945	31.6	435	33.8	0.164	1917	23.9	869	25.7	0.048
Eye/adnexa diseases	H00-H59	806	26.9	421	32.7	< 0.001	877	11.0	542	16.0	< 0.001
Ear/mastoid diseases	H60-H95	676	22.6	323	25.1	0.083	555	6.9	261	7.7	0.139
Circulatory diseases	I00-I99	1215	40.6	587	45.6	0.003	2492	31.1	1152	34.1	0.002
Respiratory diseases	J00-J99	1705	57.0	802	62.3	0.001	2928	36.6	1258	37.2	0.535
Digestive diseases	K00-K93	2170	72.5	987	76.6	0.006	3134	39.1	1514	44.8	< 0.001
Skin diseases	L00-L99	1795	60.0	840	65.2	0.001	3348	41.8	1566	46.3	< 0.001
Musculoskeletal system diseases	M00-M99	1682	56.2	775	60.2	0.017	3331	41.6	1607	47.5	< 0.001
Genitourinary system diseases	N00-N99	965	32.3	1145	88.9	< 0.001	1877	23.4	1825	53.9	< 0.001
Injury/external causes	S00-T98	2393	80.0	951	73.8	< 0.001	7538	94.2	3180	94.0	0.748

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