Over-Prescribed Medications, Under-Appreciated Risks: a Review of the Cognitive Effects of Anticholinergic Medications in Older Adults
Britt, D.M.I.; Day, G.S.
Missouri Medicine 113(3): 207-214
2016
ISSN/ISBN: 0026-6620 PMID: 27443047 Document Number: 686566
Anticholinergic medications are associated with adverse cognitive effects in cognitively normal and impaired individuals, with a greater magnitude of effect observed in individuals with preexisting cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer disease.
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