Older Men with Dementia Are at Greater Risk than Women of Serious Events After Initiating Antipsychotic Therapy

Objectives To understand how drug therapy differently affects older women and men. Design Population‐based, retrospective cohort study. Setting Ontario, Canada. Participants Twenty‐one thousand five hundred twenty‐six older adults (13,760 women, 7,766 men) with dementia newly started on oral atypica...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) 2013-01, Vol.61 (1), p.55-61
Hauptverfasser:	Rochon, Paula A., Gruneir, Andrea, Gill, Sudeep S., Wu, Wei, Fischer, Hadas D., Bronskill, Susan E., Normand, Sharon-Lise T., Austin, Peter C., Seitz, Dallas P., Bell, Chaim M., Fu, Longdi, Lipscombe, Lorraine, Anderson, Geoffrey M., Gurwitz, Jerry H.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Age Factors Aged Aged, 80 and over Antipsychotic Agents - adverse effects Antipsychotic Agents - therapeutic use atypical antipsychotic Biological and medical sciences Confidence Intervals Degenerative and inherited degenerative diseases of the nervous system. Leukodystrophies. Prion diseases Dementia Dementia - drug therapy Dementia - epidemiology Drug therapy Emergencies - epidemiology Female Follow-Up Studies Gender General aspects Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data Humans Male Medical sciences Miscellaneous Neurology Odds Ratio older adults Older people Ontario - epidemiology Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Retrospective Studies Risk Factors serious event sex and gender
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