Researchers from the Cochrane Collaboration research group have determined that seniors over the age of 80 are being given too many drugs and in too high of doses. Particularly with high blood pressure, doctors are too aggressively treating the elderly with pharmaceuticals which is doing them more harm than good.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), nearly a quarter of all Americans between 20 and 75 have hypertension while roughly 70 percent of those over 75 have it.
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Elderly Patients Agressively Over-Treated With Pharmaceuticals
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The pharmaceutical company should not be permitted to offer kick back bonuses based on the amount prescribed.
I am glad to see more and more articles addressing this important issue. The public needs to know and be informed so they can protect their loved ones.
The major problem is most people believe their doctors at face value and don't question -- and then something happens and it's too late to fix it.
Don't you get sick when you see those direct-to-consumer ads
with the DEADLY side effects?
This is a confirmation of what we already know.
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