Drug-related taste disturbance: A contributing factor in geriatric syndromes

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1142-1147

  Douglass, Rebecca ^a   Heckman, George A ^b,c,d  

^a University of Waterloo ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c Department of Medicine   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DORZOLAMIDE PLUS TIMOLOL;

AGED; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; CASE REPORT; EVENING DOSAGE; FALLING; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; NOCTURIA; SIDE EFFECT; TASTE DISORDER;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OLFACTION DISORDERS; POLYPHARMACY; SULFONAMIDES; TASTE DISORDERS; THIOPHENES; TIMOLOL; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 78649361897     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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