The role of nutritional status on polypharmacy, cognition, and functional capacity of institutionalized elderly: a systematic review

C Cacador, E Teixeira-Lemos, SO Martins, F Ramos - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
Adequate nutritional status is necessary for the proper management of polypharmacy, the
prevention of cognitive decline, and the maintenance of functional capacity in activities of …

Opportunities and challenges of pharmacovigilance in special populations: a narrative review of the literature

Y Li, Y Wu, T Jiang, H Xing, J Xu, C Li… - … Advances in Drug …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The relatively new discipline of pharmacovigilance (PV) aims to monitor the safety of drugs
throughout their evolution and is essential to discovering new drug risks. Due to their …

Polypharmacy during pregnancy and associated risk factors: a retrospective analysis of 577 medication exposures among 1.5 million pregnancies in the UK, 2000 …

A Subramanian, A Azcoaga-Lorenzo, A Anand… - BMC medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background The number of medications prescribed during pregnancy has increased over
the past few decades. Few studies have described the prevalence of multiple medication …

Combined multimorbidity and polypharmacy patterns in the elderly: a cross-sectional study in primary health care

G Stafford, N Villén, A Roso-Llorach… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: The acquisition of multiple chronic diseases, known as multimorbidity, is
common in the elderly population, and it is often treated with the simultaneous consumption …

[HTML][HTML] Peer reviewed: polypharmacy and health-related quality of life/psychological distress among patients with chronic disease

L Van Wilder, B Devleesschauwer, E Clays… - Preventing Chronic …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Methods We analyzed cross-sectional survey data on 544 chronically ill patients recruited
from June 2019 through June 2021. HRQOL was measured with the EuroQol-5 Dimension-5 …

Multimorbidity in the elderly in China based on the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

X Guo, B Zhao, T Chen, B Hao, T Yang, H Xu - PLoS One, 2021 - journals.plos.org
This study aimed to investigate the spatial distribution and patterns of multimorbidity among
the elderly in China. Data on the occurrence of 14 chronic diseases were collected for 9710 …

Spanish version of the self-care self-efficacy scale: A validation study in community-dwelling older adults with chronic multimorbidity

A Chica-Pérez, I Dobarrio-Sanz, M Correa-Casado… - Geriatric Nursing, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective To test the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Self-Care Self-
Efficacy Scale (SCSES-Sp) in community-dwelling older adults with chronic multimorbidity …

Liver frailty and all-cause mortality in the older participants of the Salus in Apulia Study

R Zupo, F Castellana, R Donghia, L Lampignano… - Geroscience, 2022 - Springer
The liver contribution to the biological network underlying physical frailty in aging is
underestimated. How best to measure this contribution magnitude and impact on health risk …

Polypharmacy patterns in multimorbid older people with cardiovascular disease: longitudinal study

N Villén, A Roso-Llorach, C Gallego-Moll… - Geriatrics, 2022 - mdpi.com
(1) Introduction: Cardiovascular disease is associated with high mortality, especially in older
people. This study aimed to characterize the evolution of combined multimorbidity and …

The prevalence of polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medications and its relationship with cognitive status in Portuguese institutionalized older adults: a …

C Caçador, E Teixeira-Lemos, J Oliveira… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of polypharmacy and potentially
inappropriate medications (PIMs) in a population of older adults living in nursing homes …