Clinical Pharmacologic Optimization of Drug Therapy in the Elderly
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Drug therapy in the elderly.
Drug dosage in the elderly requires an understanding of the age-dependent changes in drug disposition and sensitivity. The most important pharmacokinetic alteration is a decline in renal function, the elderly should therefore be treated as renally insufficient patients. Metabolic clearance is primarily reduced with drugs that display high hepatic extraction, whereas the metabolism of drugs with...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Korean Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
سال: 1996
ISSN: 1225-5467
DOI: 10.12793/jkscpt.1996.4.2.229