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Anticholinergic Drug Burden and Risk of Incident MCI and Dementia: A Population-based Study.
Alzheimer disease and associated disorders - 1 Jan 2000
Gildengers Ariel, Stoehr Gary P, Ran Xinhui, Jacobsen Erin, Teverovsky Esther, Chang Chung-Chou H, Ganguli Mary
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OBJECTIVE: We investigated whether anticholinergic drug use was related to developing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia in older adults at the population level. METHODS: We used an Anticholinergic Rating (ACR) scale, Clinical Dementia Rating, APOE genotype, and number of prescription medications. We examined time to incident MCI and incident dementia in a population-based cohort (n=1959). We assessed...
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