Background: Older people exposed to medicines with anticholinergic properties are at an increased risk of experiencing adverse events. Anticholinergic burden refers to exposure to 1 or more medicines with anticholinergic activity. Studies have reported anticholinergic burden to be a strong predictor of cognitive and physical impairment in older people1. Background work in this area has […]
Mohammed Saji Salahudeen
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- University of Otago
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Estimating the relative potencies of an anticholinergic medicine: A methodological view point
January 24, 2014
Authors Mohammed Saji Salahudeen, Prasad S Nishtala, Stephen B Duffull
Affiliations School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Presentation type Oral
Presenters Mohammed Saji Salahudeen
Background Older people continue to be prescribed medicines with anticholinergic properties and are at an increased risk of experiencing adverse events with these medicines.1 Exposure to 1 or more medicines with anticholinergic properties is termed anticholinergic burden.2 Tools to quantify anticholinergic burden have been developed, but the major drawbacks of these tools are the limited […]