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https://read.qxmd.com/read/36933178/current-management-of-hypertension-in-older-adults
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Dimitrios G Chatzis, Kalliopi Magounaki, Ioannis Pantazopoulos, Eleftherios T Beltsios, Vasiliki Katsi, Konstantinos P Tsioufis
Hypertension is a major global health issue and it accounts for a big proportion of disability and mortality worldwide even in adults aged 65 years and above. Moreover, advanced age per se is an independent risk factor for adverse cardiovascular events and there is abundant scientific evidence supporting the beneficial effects of blood pressure lowering, within certain limits, in this subset of hypertensive patients. The aim of this review article is to summarize the available evidence regarding the appropriate management of hypertension in this specific subgroup, in an era of a constantly increasing aging population...
March 18, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36920735/trends-patterns-and-associated-user-characteristics-of-antidepressant-prescriptions-in-older-adults-a-nationwide-descriptive-cohort-study-in-denmark
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Kazi Ishtiak-Ahmed, Ole Köhler-Forsberg, Erik Lykke Mortensen, Andrew A Nierenberg, Christiane Gasse
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Antidepressant use in older adults (≥ 65 years) is understudied in large population-based samples, particularly in recent years and regarding user characteristics. We aimed to describe the trends, patterns, and associated user characteristics of all antidepressant prescriptions redeemed by older adults at community pharmacies in Denmark during 2015-2019. METHODS: This register-based study used a cross-sectional design to characterize antidepressant prescription trends and patterns, and a cohort design to describe user characteristics associated with antidepressant prescription initiation...
March 15, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36879156/treating-lower-urinary-tract-symptoms-in-older-adults-intravesical-options
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Anirban Ganguly, Shachi Tyagi, Christopher Chermansky, Anthony Kanai, Jonathan Beckel, Mamoru Hashimoto, Kang Jun Cho, Michael Chancellor, Jonathan Kaufman, Naoki Yoshimura, Pradeep Tyagi
This article provides an overview of the diagnosis and the treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms in older adults complicated by the neurodegenerative changes in the micturition reflex and further confounded by age-related decline in hepatic and renal clearance raising the propensity of adverse drug reactions. The first-line drug treatment for lower urinary tract symptoms, orally administered antimuscarinics, fails to reach the equilibrium dissociation constant of muscarinic receptors even at their maximum plasma concentration and tends to evoke a half-maximal response at a muscarinic receptor occupancy of just 0...
March 6, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36862371/optimising-medications-in-older-vascular-surgery-patients-through-geriatric-co-management
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Jeff Wang, Sophie James, Sarah N Hilmer, Sarah J Aitken, Garry Soo, Vasi Naganathan, Leanne Kearney, Janani Thillainadesan
BACKGROUND: Prescribing of potentially inappropriate medications and under-prescribing of guideline-recommended medications for cardiovascular risk modification have both been associated with negative outcomes in older adults. Hospitalisation represents an important opportunity to optimise medication use and may be achieved through geriatrician-led interventions. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to evaluate whether implementation of a novel model of care called Geriatric Comanagement of older Vascular (GeriCO-V) surgery patients is associated with improvements in medication prescribing...
March 2, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36853587/management-of-older-adults-with-sickle-cell-disease-considerations-for-current-and-emerging-therapies
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Charity I Oyedeji, Kimberly L Hodulik, Marilyn J Telen, John J Strouse
People with sickle cell disease (SCD) are living longer than ever before, with the median survival increasing from age 14 years in 1973, beyond age 40 years in the 1990s, and as high as 61 years in recent cohorts from academic centers. Improvements in survival have been attributed to initiatives, such as newborn screening, penicillin prophylaxis, vaccination against encapsulated organisms, better detection and treatment of splenic sequestration, and improved transfusion support. There are an estimated 100,000 people living with SCD in the United States and millions of people with SCD globally...
February 28, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36847995/a-motivational-interviewing-intervention-to-improve-adherence-to-aceis-arbs-among-nonadherent-older-adults-with-comorbid-hypertension-and-diabetes
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Anjana Mohan, Zahra Majd, Michael L Johnson, Ekere J Essien, Jamie Barner, Omar Serna, Esteban Gallardo, Marc L Fleming, Nancy Ordonez, Marcia M Holstad, Susan M Abughosh
BACKGROUND: Hypertension and diabetes mellitus are independent risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. Due to the cardioprotective nature of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) and angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs), they are recommended for patients with comorbid hypertension and diabetes. However, poor adherence to ACEIs/ARBs among older adults is a major public health concern. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of a telephonic motivational interviewing (MI) intervention conducted by pharmacy students among a nonadherent older population (≥ 65 years old) with diabetes and hypertension...
February 27, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36826751/new-migraine-drugs-for-older-adults
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Dilara Onan, William David Wells-Gatnik, Enrico Bentivegna, Christian Lampl, Paolo Martelletti
Migraine is one of the most widespread and burdensome diseases, affecting one in every seven individuals in the world, for an estimated global prevalence of 14%. Until recently, therapeutic choices for older migraineurs have been limited by safety concerns and such patients have typically been excluded from clinical trials. However, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of new migraine drugs have begun to include participants aged over 65 years, offering clinicians relevant safety and efficacy data to be able to treat older patients with the newest drug classes, including monoclonal antibodies for CGRP (r), CGRP antagonists, and drugs targeting the serotonin 5-HT1F receptor...
February 24, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36821028/inappropriate-combined-antiplatelet-and-anticoagulant-therapy-in-older-patients-with-atrial-fibrillation-trend-over-time-2009-18
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Emilie Philippe, Séverine Henrard, Benoit Boland, Sophie Marien
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Antiplatelet therapy, when prescribed in combination with anticoagulant therapy to older patients with atrial fibrillation and no recent cardiovascular event, is inappropriate and a reversible risk factor of major bleeding. We aimed to assess the trend over time of the prevalence of inappropriate combined antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapy and to determine its associated factors during the direct oral anticoagulant era. METHODS: This was a study of consecutive older patients (age ≥ 75 years) with atrial fibrillation, receiving anticoagulant therapy upon admission, and undergoing a comprehensive geriatric assessment during their first admission in a Belgian teaching hospital between 2009 and 2018...
February 23, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36811172/sodium-glucose-cotransporter-2-inhibitors-in-frail-patients-with-heart-failure-clinical-experience-of-a-heart-failure-unit
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Daniel Villarreal, Hernán Ramírez, Valentina Sierra, Juan S Amarís, Ana M Lopez-Salazar, Gina González-Robledo
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine the difference in tolerance for sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors between patients with heart failure classified as frail according to the FRAIL questionnaire, compared to those with heart failure without frailty. METHODS: A prospective cohort study was performed between 2021 and 2022 that included patients with heart failure at a heart failure unit in Bogotá who were being treated with a sodium glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor...
February 21, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36808569/chronic-urticaria-in-older-adults-treatment-considerations
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cataldo Patruno, Gabriella Fabbrocini, Francesco Cillo, Ginevra Torta, Luca Stingeni, Maddalena Napolitano
Chronic urticaria is characterized by recurrent wheals and/or angioedema lasting for more than 6 weeks. Chronic urticaria is an extremely disabling disease limiting daily activities, compromising patient quality of life, and frequently associated with psychiatric comorbidities (depression and/or anxiety). Unfortunately, there are still gaps in the knowledge regarding treatment in special populations, especially in older patients. Indeed, there are no specific recommendations for the management and treatment of chronic urticaria in older people; therefore, recommendations for the general population are used...
February 18, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36800060/implications-of-under-reporting-medication-side-effects-beta-blockers-in-heart-failure-as-a-case-example
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Fabian Vargas, Joanna Bryan Ringel, Brian Yum, Emily B Levitan, Sabrina Mangal, Michael A Steinman, Monika M Safford, Parag Goyal
INTRODUCTION: Perceiving medication side effects but not reporting them to a clinician is common. Patterns of "under-reporting" and their implications are not well described. We aimed to address this gap by examining patterns of under-reporting perceived side effects of beta-blockers among patients with heart failure. METHODS: In 2016, a survey that evaluated medication-taking behavior was administered to 1114 participants (46.5% response rate) from The Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) cohort with prior adjudicated heart failure hospitalization or a heart failure Medicare claim...
February 17, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36745320/status-epilepticus-in-older-adults-diagnostic-and-treatment-considerations
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Gamaleldin M Osman, Sara E Hocker
Status epilepticus (SE) is one of the leading life-threatening neurological emergencies in the elderly population, with significant morbidity and mortality. SE presents unique diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in the older population given overlap with other causes of encephalopathy, complicating diagnosis, and the common occurrence of multiple comorbid diseases complicates treatment. First-line therapy involves the use of rescue benzodiazepine in the form of intravenous lorazepam or diazepam, intramuscular or intranasal midazolam and rectal diazepam...
February 6, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36715830/a-proactive-approach-to-prevent-hematopoietic-exhaustion-during-cancer-chemotherapy-in-older-patients-temporary-cell-cycle-arrest
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Lodovico Balducci, Claire Falandry, Alan List
Age is associated with the decline of multiple organ systems. In older patients, hematological toxicities associated with chemotherapy are often dose limiting, impairing dose intensity and treatment efficacy. Contrary to the classical path using growth factors to activate tissue regeneration, a novel strategy is emerging to prevent chemotherapy toxicity that involves temporary cell-cycle arrest of normal cells, such as hematopoietic or epithelial precursors. This proactive approach may allow the sparing of the stem cell reserve of these tissues...
January 30, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36715829/recurrent-metastatic-head-and-neck-squamous-cell-carcinoma-in-older-patients-are-new-agents-bringing-new-hope
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Maria Cossu Rocca, Luigi Lorini, Petr Szturz, Paolo Bossi, Jan B Vermorken
Head and neck cancer is a broad family of diseases, most of which are of squamous cell origin, affecting the epithelial mucosa lining the upper aerodigestive tract. They often recur or are progressive despite multimodality treatment approaches, resulting in a poor prognosis. Given the progressive aging of the global population, the probability to plan an active and eventually toxic treatment for an older patient, with either curative or palliative intent, can no longer be considered as an uncommon occurrence...
January 30, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36692678/prevalence-of-drug-drug-interactions-in-older-community-dwelling-individuals-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysi%C3%AF-s
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John E Hughes, Catherine Waldron, Kathleen E Bennett, Caitriona Cahir
BACKGROUND: Drug-drug interactions (DDIs) can lead to medication-related harm, and the older population is at greatest risk. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate DDI prevalence and identify common DDIs in older community-dwelling adults. METHODS: PubMed and EMBASE were searched for observational studies published between 01/01/2010 and 10/05/2021 reporting DDI prevalence in community-dwelling individuals aged ≥ 65 years. Nursing home and inpatient hospital studies were excluded...
January 24, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36670321/ageing-with-hiv-medicine-optimisation-challenges-and-support-needs-for-older-people-living-with-hiv-a-systematic-review
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Priya Sarma, Rebecca Cassidy, Sarah Corlett, Barbra Katusiime
BACKGROUND: Older people living with HIV (PLWH) are at increased risks of co-morbidities and polypharmacy. However, little is known about factors affecting their needs and concerns about medicines. This systematic review aims to describe these and to identify interventions to improve medicine optimisation outcomes in older PLWH. METHODS AND DATA SOURCES: Multiple databases and grey literature were searched from inception to February 2022 including MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycInfo, PsychArticles, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and the Cochrane Controlled Register of Trials, Abstracts in Social Gerontology, and Academic Search Complete...
January 20, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36670320/pharmacological-treatments-for-presbyopia
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Betina Orman, Giovanna Benozzi
Accommodation is the change in dioptric power of the eye. It is a dynamic process that allows focusing on an object at all distances. In order to focus sharply, three physiological responses, known as the triad of accommodation, are produced by a change in pupil size, a change in shape and position of the lens, and ocular convergence. This is modulated by the autonomic nervous system, mainly the parasympathetic nervous system. Presbyopia is a refractive condition that occurs with aging, usually manifesting around 40-50 years of age, and is a result of the loss of accommodation in the eye, causing loss of visual performance when focusing on objects placed at different distances, starting with near vision...
January 20, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36648751/prevention-practice-and-policy-older-us-veterans-perspectives-on-cannabis-use
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Julie Bobitt, Kelly Clary, Michael Krawitz, Laura Quintero Silva, Hyojung Kang
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Veterans often struggle with disabling physical and mental health conditions that tend to worsen as they age. Current medications used to treat these conditions include opioids and benzodiazepines though they can have negative side effects. Looking for alternatives to these medications, many older Veterans use cannabis for medical purposes. We aimed to develop a deeper understanding of older Veterans' cannabis use. METHODS: We used maximum variation sampling to select 32 Veterans who had completed baseline and follow-up surveys to participate in semi-structured interviews...
January 17, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36637788/frailty-as-a-marker-for-the-plasma-concentrations-of-direct-oral-anticoagulants-in-older-patients-results-of-an-exploratory-study
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Annette Eidam, Julian Marji, Petra Benzinger, Kathrin I Foerster, Jürgen Burhenne, David Czock, Felicitas Stoll, Antje Blank, Gerd Mikus, Walter E Haefeli, Jürgen M Bauer
BACKGROUND: Frailty makes older adults vulnerable to adverse health outcomes and can modify pharmacokinetics and drug exposure. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to explore the relationship between different frailty assessments and trough plasma concentrations of direct oral anticoagulants in older patients. METHODS: The frailty status of adults aged ≥ 70 years receiving regular direct oral anticoagulant medication was assessed by four different instruments: Fried physical phenotype, Rockwood frailty index, Short Physical Performance Battery, and FRAIL scale...
January 13, 2023: Drugs & Aging
https://read.qxmd.com/read/36633823/efficacy-safety-and-accuracy-of-intra-articular-therapies-for-hand-osteoarthritis-current-evidence
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Win Min Oo, David J Hunter
The lifetime risk of symptomatic hand osteoarthritis (OA) is 39.8%, with one in two women and one in four men developing the disease by age 85 years and no disease-modifying drug (DMOAD) available so far. Intra-articular (IA) therapy is one of the options commonly used for symptomatic alleviation of OA disease as it can circumvent systemic exposure and potential side effects of oral medications. The current narrative review focuses on the efficacy and safety profiles of the currently available IA agents in hand OA (thumb-base OA or interphalangeal OA) such as corticosteroids and hyaluronic acid (HA), as well as the efficacy and safety of IA investigational injectates in phase 2/3 clinical trials such as prolotherapy, platelet-rich plasma, stem cells, infliximab, interferon-? and botulinum toxin, based on the published randomized controlled trials on PubMed database...
January 12, 2023: Drugs & Aging
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