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Dementia patients found to have increased risk of developing pneumonia. READ MORE:Widely prescribed medications are putting dementia patients at greater risk of heart attacks, blood clots and pneumonia, a study found.

Researchers examined data from 174,000 adults GP surgeries in England on older adults who were diagnosed between dementia between 1998 and 2018. Academics from the Universities of Manchester, Nottingham, Edinburgh and Dundee found that dementia patients who were current users of antipsychotic drugs had a two-fold increased risk of developing pneumonia compared to those who were not taking the drugs.

Patients with dementia who were prescribed antipsychotics appeared to have a 72 per cent increased risk of kidney injury and 62 per cent increased risk of developing a type of blood clot called a venous thromboembolism. The increased risks appeared to be highest in the first week after treatment, according to the observational findings published in the BMJ.

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