Anticholinergic side effects

Drugs with anticholinergic side-effects in primary care.

BACKGROUND Anticholinergic drugs in elderly people have been associated with some serious side-effects. Patients in Turkey tend to attend primary care centers to have prescriptions of the drugs they chronically use. However, very little are known about how frequent that these drugs are prescribed and their side-effects in Turkish population. We aimed to investigate the usage and side-effects of...

Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Anticholinergic Side Effects of Long-acting Antipsychotics

Background: There are few studies on the anticholinergic side effects of long-acting antipsychotics. They tend to be used with stigmatized, severely ill and non-concordant patients rather than first episode psychosis. Aim: To investigate prevalence/incidence rate of anticholinergic side effects of long-acting antipsychotics. Methods: We included all participants with schizophrenia, schizoaffect...

Comparison of risk of neurovascular and cardiovascular side effects between tiotropium and other anticholinergic agents.

AIM The aim of this study was to examine the risk of cardiovascular diseases among users of both inhaled (ipratropium bromide or tiotropium bromide) and oral (oxybutynin and propantheline, solifenacin, tolterodine) anticholinergics. METHOD A retrospective study was undertaken on data obtained from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from subjects who had received either an inhaled or oral ...

The anticholinergic risk scale and anticholinergic adverse effects in older persons.

BACKGROUND Adverse effects of anticholinergic medications may contribute to events such as falls, delirium, and cognitive impairment in older patients. To further assess this risk, we developed the Anticholinergic Risk Scale (ARS), a ranked categorical list of commonly prescribed medications with anticholinergic potential. The objective of this study was to determine if the ARS score could be u...

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