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Incidence and prevalence of antiepileptic drugs use in persons with Alzheimer's disease.

What is it about?

Overall pattern of antiepileptic drug use, as well as differences between single antiepileptic drug substances with adjustment on the incidence of epilepsy diagnosis in persons with Alzheimer's disease compared to matched persons without Alzheimer's disease. Large cohort register-based study of community-dwelling persons (n=70718) was utilized for this study.

Why is it important?

Persons with Alzheimer disease used antiepileptic drugs more frequently than those without Alzheimer disease, and the majority of them used older generation of antiepileptics despite their possible adverse effects on cognition and high potential to drug-drug interactions.

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