Association between antidementia medication use and mortality in people diagnosed with dementia with Lewy bodies in the UK: A retrospective cohort study

Association between antidementia medication use and mortality in people diagnosed with dementia with Lewy bodies in the UK: A retrospective cohort study

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<h4>Background</h4> Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLBs) is a common cause of dementia but has higher mortality than Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The reasons for this are unclear, but antidementia drugs (including acetylcholinesterase inhibitors [AChEIs] and memantine) symptomatically benefit p...

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Main Authors: Shanquan Chen, Annabel C. Price, Rudolf N. Cardinal, Sinéad Moylett, Anne D. Kershenbaum, James Fitzgerald, Christoph Mueller, Robert Stewart, John T. O’Brien
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-12-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9725132/?tool=EBI

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