Polypharmacy Patterns in Multimorbid Older People with ...

Polypharmacy Patterns in Multimorbid Older People with ... - NCBI

The chronic disease groups with the highest prevalence were those related to risk factors and CVD itself, such as hypertension, dyslipidaemia, obesity, ...

Polypharmacy Patterns in Multimorbid Older People with ... - PubMed

(1) Introduction: Cardiovascular disease is associated with high mortality, especially in older people. This study aimed to characterize the ...

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Combined patterns of multimorbidity and polypharmacy were analysed using fuzzy c-means clustering techniques and hidden Markov models. The ...

Prevalence of multimorbidity and polypharmacy among adults and ...

In older adult samples, the prevalence of multimorbidity ranged from 4·8% to 93·1%, while the prevalence of polypharmacy ranged from 2·6% to 86·6%. High ...

Combined Multimorbidity and Polypharmacy Patterns in the Elderly

(1) Background: The acquisition of multiple chronic diseases, known as multimorbidity, is common in the elderly population, and it is often ...

Multimorbidity patterns, polypharmacy and their association with ...

In the literature, European articles underscore medication for depression and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the elderly [18], ...

Prevalence of multimorbidity and polypharmacy among adults and ...

Polypharmacy and pattern of medication use in community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review. J Clin Nurs 2021; 30: 918–28. 17 Delara M, ...

Multimorbidity patterns in relation to polypharmacy and dosage ...

Multimorbidity patterns have differing effects on excessive polypharmacy and dosage frequency. Malignant/digestive/urologic pattern may be at ...

Multimorbidity and polypharmacy in hospitalized older patients

The prevalence of polypharmacy was 56.32%. Older age, polypharmacy, prolonged length of stay (LOS), higher cost on medications were ...

Polypharmacy and Deprescribing in Older Adults - Annual Reviews

Older adults commonly end up on many medications. Deprescribing is an important part of individualizing care for older adults.

Patterns of patients with polypharmacy in adult population from Korea

In our study, most patients with polypharmacy were elderly people with multimorbidity and a group comprising inpatients with severe diseases, ...

Polypharmacy Definitions for Multimorbid Older Adults Need ... - MDPI

There are numerous definitions of polypharmacy to describe the use of many medications among older adults, but there is a need to clarify if ...

Polypharmacy and Health-Related Quality of Life/Psychological ...

Chronically ill patients tend to have a high risk of multimorbidity; hence, multiple drug use is common. The resulting polypharmacy (use of ≥5 ...

An update on the clinical consequences of polypharmacy in older ...

In a study of 482 community-dwelling older adults, polypharmacy was associated with lower gait speed even when accounting for multimorbidity and ...

Defining, identifying and addressing problematic polypharmacy ...

Medication patterns in older adults with Multimorbidity: a cluster analysis of primary care patients. BMC Fam Pract 2019;20:82. doi:10.1186/s12875-019-0969 ...

Multiple Diseases and Polypharmacy in the Elderly - Sage Journals

Over the last 20–30 years, problems related to aging, multimorbidity, and polypharmacy have become a prominent issue in global healthcare.

Systematic associations among chronic diseases and drugs using ...

The six clinically sound multimorbidity-polypharmacy patterns described in this non-elderly population confirmed the existence of systematic ...

Factors associated with polypharmacy and excessive ... - BMJ Open

Conclusions Polypharmacy was commonplace for older adults with ID and may be partly explained by the high prevalence of multimorbidity reported. Review of ...

A report from the China Atrial Fibrillation Registry Study - Frontiers

Background: Multimorbidity, polypharmacy and inappropriate prescribing is common in elderly patients worldwide. We aimed to explore the current ...

Polypharmacy in Older Adults Hospitalized for Heart Failure

Defining polypharmacy as taking ≥10 medications might be more ideal in the HF population as most patients already take ≥5 medications.