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Dose–Response Relationships Between Polypharmacy and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Among Older People

BACKGROUND: Although medicines are prescribed based on clinical guidelines and expected to benefit patients, both positive and negative health outcomes have been reported associated with polypharmacy. Mortality is the main outcome, and information on cause-specific mortality is scarce. Hence, we inv...

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Autores principales: Huang, Yun-Ting, Steptoe, Andrew, Wei, Li, Zaninotto, Paola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9071388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34079992
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glab155