Psychiatric drugs tied to falls in the elderly

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Psychiatric drugs tied to falls in the elderly

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Seniors taking psychiatric drugs may be at extra high risk for falling, new Dutch research suggests. Of about 400 elderly people in the study, those who took medications including antidepressants and antipsychotics were twice as likely to report having fallen three or more times in the previous year, researchers found. The new study can't prove that falls were due to the effects of the drugs, themselves, and not to seniors' underlying medical conditions, for example. ...

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