TY - JOUR ID - 89554 TI - Comparing Medical Comorbidities Between Opioid and Cocaine Users: A Data Mining Approach JO - Addiction and Health JA - AHJ LA - en SN - 2008-4633 AU - Kim, Yong-Mi AD - Yong-Mi Kim, PhD Associate Professor School of Library and Information Studies University of Oklahoma Schusterman Center 4502 East 41st Street Tulsa, OK 74135 Y1 - 2019 PY - 2019 VL - 11 IS - 4 SP - 223 EP - 233 KW - Cocaine KW - Data mining KW - Electronic health records KW - Comorbidity KW - Opioids DO - 10.22122/ahj.v11i4.242 N2 - Background: Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) are instrumental in controlling opioid misuse,but opioid users have increasingly shifted to cocaine, creating a different set of medical problems. Whileopioid use results in multiple medical comorbidities, findings of the existing studies reported singlecomorbidities rather than a set, and furthermore, those findings are often conflicting because of the lack ofcontrolling for other substances in the analysis when combined use of substance creates synergistic effects.On the other hand, the findings from cocaine use are mainly related to kidney and heart problems, which lackspecificity. Because medical comorbidities from opioid and cocaine use are very different, it is imperative toinvestigate medical comorbidities from opioids and cocaine in order to minimize negative effects fromPDMPs. Therefore, this study attempts to discover sets of medical comorbidities from opioid and cocaine useby controlling for other substances in the analysis.Methods: A data mining technique, association rule mining algorithm, was employed to discover sets ofmedical comorbidities using electronic medical records. This method is ideal to discover co-occurringmedical comorbidities.Findings: Opioid use was associated with a set of [high diastolic blood pressure (DBP), abnormal specificgravity], [high body mass index (BMI), low blood gas] among others. Cocaine use correlated with [highcreatine kinase (CK), high blood urea nitrogen (BUN)], [high CK, cardiopulmonary] among others.Conclusion: The findings of this study addresses some of the conflicting findings by eliminating multidrugand reports sets of medical comorbidities from opioid and cocaine use UR - https://ahj.kmu.ac.ir/article_89554.html L1 - https://ahj.kmu.ac.ir/article_89554_0e0b4505de8f5a493cc3013bb07418bf.pdf ER -