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Antipsychotics Heart Attack Risk Among Elderly With Dementia
April 3, 2012 by NewsBot
A study published Online First by Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals, reveals that antipsychotic drugs can increase the risk of heart attack in older patients with dementia. Older patients with dementia are often prescribed antipsychotics in order to control symptoms, such as hallucinations, physical aggression, and agitation...