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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xep@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The drug is enzalutamide.

enzalutamide (sold as Xtandi). Among the drug’s listed side effects are higher rates of falls and fractures among patients who took it, compared with those given a placebo.

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- protist@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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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