Use of drugs with anticholinegic effects and cognitive impairment in community-living older persons

Age and Ageing

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 105-108

  Merchant, Reshma A ^a   Li, Bintao ^b,c   Yap, Keng Bee ^d   Ng, Tze Pin ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CHLORPHENIRAMINE; CHLORPROMAZINE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIMENHYDRINATE; HYDROXYZINE; IMIPRAMINE; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; SCOPOLAMINE; THIORIDAZINE; TIOTROPIUM BROMIDE; TOLTERODINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ANTICHOLINERGIC EFFECT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGAPORE; URGE INCONTINENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLINERGIC ANTAGONISTS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOOD DISORDERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SINGAPORE; URINARY INCONTINENCE, URGE;

EID: 58849121855     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afn240     Document Type: Letter

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