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Multiple Sclerosis => THE PRACTICAL SIDE OF BEING MULTIPLY SCLEROSED => Topic started by: agate on June 25, 2019, 02:59:35 pm

Title: Common drugs that increase dementia risk
Post by: agate on June 25, 2019, 02:59:35 pm

MS patients often have bladder problems that lead them to doctors who then prescribe one of the common bladder-control drugs. Many of these drugs are either anticholinergics or antimuscarinics. As effective as some of them are, they also carry a risk of dementia for some, according to this article in Medical News Today (June 25, 2019)--"These Common Drugs May Increase Dementia Risk":



http://bit.ly/2J5XFQB

Title: Anticholinergic drugs could increase dementia risk
Post by: agate on June 26, 2019, 08:52:46 pm

More on this finding in Doctor's Guide - Neurology (June 26, 2019)--"Anticholinergic drugs could increase risk of dementia":



http://bit.ly/2X3EQm7

Title: Anticholinergic drug exposure and the risk of dementia... (JAMA)
Post by: agate on June 30, 2019, 03:37:42 pm

The article in JAMA Internal Medicine (June 24, 2019):


http://bit.ly/2ZYS9WU