Table 6.
Drugs with significant anticholinergic effect in nursing home residents with different types of dementia.
| N = 568 | Dementia-diagnosis |
No dementia-diagnosis |
P-value | AD or LBD/PDD1 |
Other dementia2 |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 523 | n = 45 | n = 144 | n = 379 | ||||
| Kind of anticholinergic treatment | All treatment, regularly and as needed, n (%) | 65 (12.4) | 8 (17.8) | 0.304 | 15 (10.4) | 50 (13.2) | 0.390 |
| Drugs for urinary frequency and incontinence3, n (%) | 2 (0.4) | 1 (2.2) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.5) | |||
| Hydroxyzine/Promethazine/Alimemazine4, n (%) | 39 (7.5) | 4 (8.9) | 0.767 | 9 (6.3) | 30 (7.9) | 0.517 | |
1
Alzhemier's disease or Lewy body dementia/Parkinson's disease dementia.
2
Other types of dementia, i.e. vascular dementia, dementia NOS or unknown type of dementia.
3
ATC-code G04BD excl. G04BD12 (mirabegron).
4
Treatment with one of these drugs.