Relationships between the amount of saliva and medications in elderly individuals

Gerodontology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 116-120

  Ichikawa, Kana ^a   Sakuma, Shihoko ^b   Yoshihara, Akihiro ^a   Miyazaki, Hideo ^a   Funayama, Saori ^b   Ito, Kayoko ^b   Igarashi, Atsuko ^a,c  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL AND DENTAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Dental Hospital Geriatric Dentistry ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

elderly; gender; medication; saliva

Indexed keywords

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTIULCER AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; COAGULATING AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CHEWING GUM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; POLYPHARMACY; SALIVA; SECRETION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-ULCER AGENTS; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CHEWING GUM; COAGULANTS; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; POLYPHARMACY; SALIVA; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 79958267393     PISSN: 07340664     EISSN: 17412358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-2358.2009.00358.x     Document Type: Article

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