The influence of cholinesterase inhibitor therapy for dementia on risk of cardiac pacemaker insertion: a retrospective, population-based, health administrative databases study in Ontario, Canada

Background Cholinesterase inhibitors are used to treat the symptoms of dementia and can theoretically cause bradycardia. Previous studies suggest that patients taking these medications have an increased risk of undergoing pacemaker insertion. Since these drugs have a marginal impact on patient outco...
Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Autor*in:

Huang, Allen R [verfasserIn]

Redpath, Calum J

van Walraven, Carl

Format:

E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2015

Schlagwörter:

Cholinesterase inhibitors

Cardiac pacemaker insertions

Population risk

Anmerkung:

© Huang et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (

Übergeordnetes Werk:

Enthalten in: BMC neurology - London : BioMed Central, 2001, 15(2015), 1 vom: 28. Apr.

Übergeordnetes Werk:

volume:15 ; year:2015 ; number:1 ; day:28 ; month:04

Links:

Volltext

DOI / URN:

10.1186/s12883-015-0325-1

Katalog-ID:

SPR027546675

Nicht das Richtige dabei?

Schreiben Sie uns!