Medication underuse in aging outpatients with cardiovascular disease: Prevalence, determinants, and outcomes in a prospective cohort study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Meid, Andreas D ^a   Quinzler, Renate ^a   Freigofas, Julia ^a   Saum, Kai Uwe ^b   Schöttker, Ben ^b   Holleczek, Bernd ^c   Heider, Dirk ^d   König, Hans Helmut ^d   Brenner, Hermann ^b   Haefeli, Walter E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND CANCER REGISTRY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FATALITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION UNDERUSE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMBINATION DRUG THERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84942586331     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136339     Document Type: Article

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