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This study examined whether these clinical factors, or sociodemographic factors of race and gender, are associated with opioid dose reduction.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Design and Setting<\/jats:title><jats:p>A retrospective cohort study of outpatients prescribed chronic opioid therapy between 2007 and 2012 within a large, academic health care system in Bronx, New York, using electronic medical record data. Included patients were prescribed a stable dose of chronic opioid therapy over a one-year \u201cbaseline period\u201d and did not have cancer.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>The primary outcome was opioid dose reduction (\u226530% reduction from baseline) within two years. Multivariable logistic regression tested the associations of two clinical variables (baseline daily opioid dose and concurrent benzodiazepine prescription) and two sociodemographic variables (race\/ethnicity and gender) with opioid dose reduction.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Of 1,097 patients, 463 (42.2%) had opioid dose reduction. High opioid dose (\u2265100 morphine-milligram equivalents [MME]) was associated with lower odds of opioid dose reduction compared with an opioid dose &lt;100 MME (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 0.69, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.54\u20130.89). Concurrent benzodiazepine prescription was not associated with opioid dose reduction. Black (vs white) race and female (vs male) gender were associated with greater odds of opioid dose reduction (AOR = 1.82, 95% CI = 1.22\u20132.70; and AOR = 1.43, 95% CI = 1.11\u20131.83, respectively).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Black race and female gender were associated with greater odds of opioid dose reduction, whereas clinical factors of high opioid dose and concurrent benzodiazepine prescription were not. 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