Association between antidementia medication use and mortality in people diagnosed with dementia with Lewy bodies in the UK: A retrospective cohort study.

Shanquan Chen Annabel C Price Rudolf N Cardinal Sinéad MoylettAnne D KershenbaumJames FitzgeraldChristoph Mueller Robert J Stewart John Tiernan O'Brien

Published in: PLoS medicine (2022)

In this study, we observed that use of AChEIs with or without memantine in DLB was associated with shorter duration of hospital admissions and decreased risk of mortality. Although our study was naturalistic, it supports further the use of AChEIs in DLB.

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cardiovascular events
risk factors
type diabetes
parkinson disease
cross sectional