Antipsychotic medication dispensing and risk of death in veterans and war widows 65 years and older
Autor: | Jean Hollis, Robert G. Cumming, Loelle Forrester, Stephen Touyz, David A. Grayson, Henry Brodaty |
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Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Olanzapine
Male Risk medicine.medical_specialty Chlorpromazine medicine.medical_treatment Cohort Studies Benzodiazepines Risk Factors Internal medicine Cause of Death medicine Haloperidol Humans Mortality Antipsychotic Survival rate Cause of death Aged Proportional Hazards Models Retrospective Studies Veterans Aged 80 and over Proportional hazards model business.industry Mortality rate Valproic Acid Age Factors Australia Widowhood Survival Rate Psychiatry and Mental health Carbamazepine Relative risk Anesthesia Anticonvulsants Dementia Female Geriatrics and Gerontology business medicine.drug Antipsychotic Agents |
Zdroj: | The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry. 15(11) |
ISSN: | 1064-7481 |
Popis: | To establish the instantaneous relative risk (RR) of death associated with individual antipsychotic drugs, carbamazepine and sodium valproate for those 65 years and older.Subjects dispensed antipsychotic drugs, sodium valproate or carbamazepine in 2003 or 2004 were analyzed as incident (N = 16,634) or prevalent (N = 9,831) users. Survival curves, mortality rates, and Cox proportional hazards models over two time periods were used to explore risk of death. The models were adjusted for age, sex, residential status, and psychotropic and medical drug dispensing. Olanzapine subjects were the reference group in the Cox regression. Subanalyses were performed for incident subjects with more than 30 days of follow-up and those dispensed cholinesterase inhibitors.In the adjusted Cox proportional hazards models, haloperidol dispensing was consistently associated with an increased risk of death compared with olanzapine users (relative risk [RR] for incident users: 2.26, 95% confidence intervals (CI): 2.08-2.47; Wald statistic: 345.36, df = 1, por =0.001). There was some evidence of decreased survival with dispensing of higher haloperidol doses, although confounding by medical comorbidity cannot be excluded. Chlorpromazine (RR: 1.39, 95% CI: 1.15-1.67; Wald statistic: 12.08, df = 1, p0.001) and risperidone (RR: 1.23, 95% CI: 1.07-1.40; Wald statistic: 9.12, df = 1, p = 0.003) dispensing were associated with increased risk of death in incident users.These results should be interpreted cautiously because haloperidol and chlorpromazine are used in broader clinical contexts. However, in the absence of data from randomized trials, the safety profile of haloperidol should not be assumed to be benign. Antipsychotic drugs should not be studied as an aggregated group because their associated risks are not uniform. |
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