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Nursing Home Patients Receive Inadequate Treatment.(for osteoporosis)
2001 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nursing home residents are not receiving adequate treatment for the bone-weakening and disabling disease, osteoporosis, even though medications are widely and easily available.
"You've got a treatable disease that is not being treated," said Carlos Rojas-Fernandez, PharmD, of the Texas Tech University Health Science Center in Amarillo.
He and his colleagues presented the results of a study of nearly 30,000 nursing home residents with osteoporosis at the annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, held March 6-10, 2001.
They found only one in four of those nursing home residents over the age of 65 were treated with antiosteoporotic drugs, though previous research has shown that more than 60% of nursing home residents between 65 and 74 had the disease, and that 85% of those over 85 had it, according to Rojas-Fernandez.
Preventing osteoporosis-caused falls and fractures can significantly add to the quality of nursing home residents' lives by allowing them mobility and the avoidance of pain, said Rojas-Fernandez.
There may be several reasons for the under-use of anti-osteoporotic drugs, said Rojas-Fernandez. Physicians may ...
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