Title: Ageing of the population and selected aspects of the rationality of drug prescribing of statins in older age (II.) Author: Martina Pekařová Tutor: Assoc. Prof. Daniela Fialová, PharmDr, Ph.D. University: Charles University Faculty: Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Králové Department: Department of Social and Clinical Pharmacy INTRODUCTION: In the geriatric population, cardiovascular diseases based on atherosclerosis rank first place in morbidity and mortality. A positive effect on cardiovascular morbidity can generally reduce overall morbidity, polymorbidity, polypharmacotherapy, and prolong the quality of life of older patients. Statins are often underprescribedin the treatment of ATS heart disease in older age or are underdosed in both primary and secondary prevention. The main goals of the diploma thesis was to analyze the rationality of statin prescription in the Czech population of seniors, assessed in the EuroAgeism H2020 project in three different health care settings (acute, outpatient and community pharmacy settings of health care). The aim was to describe various aspects of rational / irrational statine therapy in patients older than 65 years (choice of drugs, drug combinations, dosing timing, indications according to the degree of CVS risk in seniors, and indications in the presence...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:454894 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Pekařová, Martina |
| Contributors | Fialová, Daniela, Kostřiba, Jan |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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