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Ten or more medications, often prescribed to older heart failure patients, raises concerns – EurekAlert
More than half of older patients hospitalized for heart failure are discharged with 10 or more prescriptions, and most are not medications to treat heart failur…
DALLAS, October 13, 2020 — More than half of older patients hospitalized for heart failure, a progressive condition in which the heart doesn’t pump blood as well as it should, are discharged from the hospital with prescriptions for 10 or more medications, according to new research published today in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association journal.
“High medication burden, also known as polypharmacy, is commonly associated with adverse events and reactions,” said Parag Goyal, …
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