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Ten or more medications, often prescribed to older heart failure patients, raises concerns

October 13, 2020

The FINANCIAL -- More than half of older patients hospitalized for heart failure, a progressive condition in which the heart doesn’t pump blood as well as it should, are discharged from the hospital with prescriptions for 10 or more medications, according to new research published today in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association journal.