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Aim: The aim of the present study was to investigate whether polypharmacy correlates with the risk of dementia in older people.
Methods: From representative claims data established from the National Health Insurance with a population coverage rate of 99% in Taiwan, we identified 7135 newly diagnosed patients with dementia in 2000–2008 and 2 8540 randomly selected controls without dementia, both...
Background: Little is known about the relationship between polypharmacy and Parkinson's disease (PD). In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that polypharmacy increases the risk of PD in older people in Taiwan.
Methods: From a randomly sampled cohort of one million health insurance enrollees, we identified 2827 new cases of PD over the period 2000–2008 aged ≥65 years and selected 11 308...
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