Selected problems of cardiovascular drugs at geriatric patients.

Abstract

The abstract presents findings of observational and longitudinal studies on cardiovascular medications of the Vth FP European project Aged in Home Care (200-2004), particularly use of potentially inappropriate cardiovascular drugs and their impact on mortality and health status of geriatric patients.

Keywords

• AdHOC project
• home care in Europe
• cardiovascular medications
• inappropriate medications
• drug-related morbidity
• drug-related mortality