Comment on Why Are More Older People Dying After Falls? Some researchers suspect that rising prescription drug use may explain a disturbing trend.

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protist@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Enzalutamide is only the example from the first anecdote in the first paragraph. The article discusses many fall-inducing medications, and also tells the perspectives of many physicians who disagree that pharmaceuticals are to blame for the increase at all. For example, “Today’s over-85 cohort may also be frailer and sicker than the oldest-old were 30 years ago, Dr. Gill added, because contemporary medicine can keep people alive for longer.”

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