{"id":628494,"date":"2026-09-18T11:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/628494\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:38:07","slug":"some-drugs-can-lead-to-additional-prescriptions-putting-older-adults-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/628494\/","title":{"rendered":"Some drugs can lead to additional prescriptions, putting older adults at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"VBFBXUCV2ZEFTMRGBEIVHRBDLY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">If you take multiple medications, you might be unknowingly taking one drug to treat the side effects of another.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"GGIKXDTNKZC7JL7VY5LQ7KS4EM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/394\/bmj-2026-100499\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new study<\/a> published in the BMJ that looked at the prescription data of older adults in Ontario, Canada, researchers identified 24 common drug combinations that may occur when a drug side effect \u201cis misinterpreted as a new condition, and then a second drug is started to manage the adverse event,\u201d said lead author Paula Rochon, director of research at the Weston and O\u2019Born Centre for Mature Women\u2019s Health at Sinai Health in Toronto. The researchers call this sort of chain reaction a \u201cpotentially inappropriate prescribing cascade.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you take multiple medications, you might be unknowingly taking one drug to treat the side effects of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[103,61,60,371],"class_list":["post-628494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}