Anticholinergic Medication Use and Cognitive Impairment in the Older Population: The Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study

By C. Fox, Kathryn Richardson, I. Maidment, G. Savva, F. Matthews, D. Smithard, S. Coulton, C. Katona, M. Boustani, Carol Brayne. Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, 2011

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OBJECTIVES: To determine whether the use of medications with possible and definite anticholinergic activity increases the risk of cognitive impairment and mortality in older people and whether risk is cumulative.

Subfields: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Psychiatry and Mental health

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