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Highlights of Papers in Clinical Investigations Section: The Appropriateness of Drug Use in an Older Nondemented and Demented Population by MS Giron; H‐X Wang; C Bernstein is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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Polypharmacy and inappropriate drug prescribing are major concerns for older people. In this study of 681 subjects age 80 years and older (mean 86.9) with or without dementia, the mean number of drugs used was 4.6 (4.5 for nondemented and 4.8 for demented subjects). Nondemented subjects were more commonly prescribed cardiovascular drugs and were more likely to be exposed to drug‐disease interactions. Demented subjects were more commonly prescribed neuropsychiatric drugs, exposed to drug duplication, and given drugs with potent anticholinergic properties. Multiple and inappropriate drug use places older people at high risk for adverse drug events.
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- Author
- MS Giron; H‐X Wang; C Bernstein
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; The American Geriatrics Society; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0002-8614)
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)