Comorbidity profile of dementia patients in primary care: Are they sicker?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 104-109

  Schubert, Cathy C ^a   Boustani, Malaz ^a,b,d   Callahan, Christopher M ^a,b   Perkins, Anthony J ^a,b   Carney, Caroline P ^a   Fox, Christopher ^c   Unverzagt, Frederick ^a   Hui, Siu ^a,b   Hendrie, Hugh C ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AGING RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Comorbidity; Dementia

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; AMFEBUTAMONE; AMITRIPTYLINE; AMOXAPINE; BENZATROPINE; BROMPHENIRAMINE; CHLORPHENIRAMINE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLOZAPINE; DESIPRAMINE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; DOXEPIN; HYDROXYZINE; HYOSCYAMINE; IMIPRAMINE; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; LOXAPINE; MECLOZINE; NORTRIPTYLINE; OXYBUTYNIN; PAROXETINE; PERPHENAZINE; PETHIDINE; PROMAZINE; PROMETHAZINE; QUETIAPINE; THIORIDAZINE; TRIFLUOPERAZINE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

AGE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RACE; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLINERGIC ANTAGONISTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POLYPHARMACY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 33645128411     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.00543.x     Document Type: Article

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