Potentially inappropriate prescriptions of antipsychotic and anticholinergic drugs in patients with Parkinson's disease.
Neurodegener Dis Manag
; 11(5): 361-371, 2021 10.
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Lay abstract People with Parkinson's disease have movement disorders, and some of them will frequently have medical problems such as constipation, urinary incontinence, cognitive impairment, depression and anxiety, among others. Many medications can make these symptoms worse, so they can be considered potentially inappropriate prescriptions. From a drug dispensing database, we found 2965 patients with a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, in which more than a third of them presented this type of potentially inappropriate prescriptions, especially those patients of older age and those who had other neurological or psychiatric diseases.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Enfermedad de Parkinson
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Antipsicóticos
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Antagonistas Colinérgicos
Tipo de estudio:
Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Aged
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Neurodegener Dis Manag
Año:
2021
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Colombia
Pais de publicación:
Reino Unido