Drugs with potential cardiac adverse effects: Retrospective study in a large cohort of parkinsonian patients.

Introduction/objective: Drugs with potential cardiac adverse effects are commonly prescribed in Parkinson's disease (PD). To describe demographic and clinical characteristics in a group of PD patients with cardiac events and to evaluate risk factors.

Patients And Methods: We sampled 506 consecutive PD patients (211 women/295 men), median age 68.