People with dementia are likely to have taken more than three medications for other health conditions in the five years directly before their diagnosis, according to new research.
The study is the first to provide an in-depth exploration of the links between evolving polypharmacy – when a patient is prescribed more than one drug at any given time – and a dementia diagnosis.
Published in the Aging and Disease journal, it is based on an analysis of the records of more than 33,000 dementia patients in Wales between 1990 to 2015.
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