The mortality risk of long-term and new antipsychotic drug use in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients in Japan was studied to determine improved treatment protocols. One of the main findings was that newly prescribed users showed increased mortality. Therefore, the new use of antipsychotic drugs represents a distinct mortality risk, while those on long-term antipsychotic therapy are suggested to be relatively safe.
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Suggestions Obtained from the J-CATIA Study (Japan Consortium for Antipsychotics Treatment in Alzheimer's Disease)
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine
Psychiatria et Neurologia Japonica
118: 845-848, 2016
<Keywords:Alzheimer's disease, antipsychotics, mortality risk, BPSD, prospective study>