The benefits and risks associated with cholinesterase inhibitor therapy in Alzheimer’s disease
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- Meta-epidemiology (narrow)
- Consensus categories
- none
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- Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none
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- Candidate signal: Other designConsensus signal: none
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- Candidate signal: ReviewConsensus signal: Review
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- 0.995
- Threshold uncertainty score
- 1.000
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- 0.271 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
- Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline· verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it
Abstract
The 'second-generation' cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEIs), donepezil, galantamine and rivastigmine, are a class of medications that are currently approved for the treatment of mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD). These medications have proven efficacy in improving cognition, behaviour, activities of daily living, and global functioning in mild-to-moderate AD. They have also been shown to reduce caregiver stress and to delay time to nursing home placement. Two separate meta-analyses have indicated that ChEIs confer a modest but significant therapeutic benefit in the treatment of AD, despite higher rates of treatment discontinuation and side effects than placebo. There is growing evidence to support their efficacy in treating moderate-to-severe AD. ChEIs are generally well-tolerated, with side effects that tend to be dose-related and are most problematic during dose titration. The most common adverse effects, related to cholinergic stimulation in the brain and peripheral tissues, include gastrointestinal, cardiorespiratory, extrapyramidal, genitourinary, and musculoskeletal symptoms, as well as sleep disturbances. Few clinically significant drug-drug interactions with ChEIs have been identified. Three head-to-head trials of ChEIs in the treatment of AD have been published to date, but are limited due to their open-label design, rates of titration, and the drug dosage levels utilised. Further study is needed to examine other indications for ChEIs, as well as their combination with newer treatments, such as memantine.
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The record
- Venue
- Expert Opinion on Drug Safety
- Topic
- Cholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases
- Field
- Medicine
- Canadian institutions
- Health Sciences CentreSunnybrook Health Science Centre
- Funders
- not available
- Keywords
- GalantamineMedicineRivastigmineDonepezilAdverse effectCholinesteraseDementiaMemantineDiseasePharmacologyDrugInternal medicineIntensive care medicine
- Has abstract in OpenAlex
- yes