Potentially inappropriate medications with risk of major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events

• In: D15 Whats new in practice? Part 1 on Tuesday, 4 September 2018, 11:10 -11:20
• At: Glasgow (Scotland) (2018)
• Type: Presentation
• By: AGUIAR, Joao (iMED.ULisboa - The Research Institute for Medicines, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
• Co-author(s): João Pedro Aguiar: , iMED.ULisboa - The Research Institute for Medicines, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
  Filipa Alves da Costa: , CiiEM - Centro de Investigação Interdisciplinar Egas Moniz, Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz (IUEM), Caparica, Portugal
  Hubert Leufkens: Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Clinical Pharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
  Ana Paula Martins: , iMED.ULisboa - The Research Institute for Medicines, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
  
• Abstract:

  Background

  Potentially Inappropriate Medications (PIMs) are medications with a risk of Adverse Drug Events that outweighs their potential benefit. Information on PIMs with major adverse cardio and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) risk of occurrence among the elderly is scarce.

  Methods

  A systematic review enabled the identification of PIMs. The

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