• Profile
Close

Risk of pneumonia associated with atypical antipsychotic use in nursing home residents with Parkinson disease

Journal of Psychiatric Research Aug 01, 2019

Chekani F, et al. - In elderly nursing home residents with Parkinson disease (PD), researcher assessed how the risk of pneumonia is related to inappropriate atypical antipsychotic (AAP) use. Older adults (aged 65 years or older; n = 12,076) with a diagnosis of PD and with comorbid depression who began AAP medication were studied. They defined/listed aripiprazole, clozapine or quetiapine according to 2015 Beers criteria as appropriate AAPs, and olanzapine, asenapine, brexpiprazole, iloperidone, lurasidone, paliperidone, risperidone, or ziprasidone as inappropriate AAPs. Patients with PD who used inappropriate AAP were at significantly higher risk of pneumonia vs appropriate AAP group in all analyses. In sensitivity analyses, they observed the pneumonia risk of 1.28 (1.12–1.47) for risperidone vs quetiapine and of 1.29 for olanzapine vs quetiapine.

Go to Original
Only Doctors with an M3 India account can read this article. Sign up for free or login with your existing account.
4 reasons why Doctors love M3 India
  • Exclusive Write-ups & Webinars by KOLs

  • Nonloggedininfinity icon
    Daily Quiz by specialty
  • Nonloggedinlock icon
    Paid Market Research Surveys
  • Case discussions, News & Journals' summaries
Sign-up / Log In
x
M3 app logo
Choose easy access to M3 India from your mobile!


M3 instruc arrow
Add M3 India to your Home screen
Tap  Chrome menu  and select "Add to Home screen" to pin the M3 India App to your Home screen
Okay