Elderly individuals should have chronic medications, especially for hypertension, reassessed to avoid adverse effects like falls. — Whalespan
Elderly individuals should have chronic medications, especially for hypertension, reassessed to avoid adverse effects like falls.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“you know old people sort of they collect meds like they collect other things and you know sometimes you'll see someone who's on 15 17 18 meds you're like why are you even on this people who had hypertension when they were 50 and needed three meds to manage it but now we're 90 and they're falling all the time because their blood pressure is so low but nobody bothered to say hey you don't need three meds for your blood pressure anymore”