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J Formos Med Assoc
January 2025
Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address:
Controlling hypertension has become an important issue in the elderly population in whom neurological comorbidities are highly prevalent. Most of the large-scale trials focusing on hypertension management in older populations have excluded patients with comorbid neurological disorders. However, this population requires special considerations, as the benefits of antihypertensive agents are mostly uncertain and there is a higher risk of adverse events.
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January 2025
Health Systems Transformation Platform (HSTP), AISF Building, First Floor, Kalka Devi Marg, Lajpat Nagar IV, New Delhi, 110024, India.
Background: Multimorbidity is associated with significant out-of-pocket expenditures (OOPE) and catastrophic health expenditure (CHE), especially in low- and middle-income countries like India. Despite this, there is limited research on the financial burden of multimorbidity in outpatient and inpatient care, and cross-state comparisons of CHE are underexplored.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis using nationally representative data from the National Sample Survey 75th Round 'Social Consumption in India: Health (2017-18)', focusing on patients aged 30 and above in outpatient and inpatient care in India.
PLoS One
January 2025
Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Background: There is an increasing prevalence of multiple conditions (multimorbidity) and multiple medications (polypharmacy) across many populations. Previous literature has focused on the prevalence and impact of these health states separately, but there is a need to better understand their co-occurrence.
Methods And Findings: This study reported on multimorbidity and polypharmacy among middle-aged and older adults in two national datasets: the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) and the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN).
J Am Med Dir Assoc
January 2025
EPI-PHARE Scientific Interest Group, French National Agency for Medicines and Health Products Safety, French National Health Insurance, Saint-Denis, France; Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.
Objective: We aimed to describe the medications prescribed to people aged ≥90 years.
Design: A cohort study was performed using data from the year 2022.
Setting And Participants: Using data from the French National Health Data System, people aged ≥90 years affiliated with the general insurance scheme were included.
Scand J Prim Health Care
January 2025
Center for General Practice, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
Introduction: Polypharmacy is widespread. The demographic shift toward older patients receiving multiple medications increases risk and drug-related problems in these patients.
Objective: To investigate patient perspectives on polypharmacy and the experienced effects of medication reviews by pharmacists in general practice.
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