Pharmacokinetic Optimisation of Drug Therapy in Elderly Patients
- 1 July 1995
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Drugs & Aging
- Vol. 7 (1) , 10-18
- https://doi.org/10.2165/00002512-199507010-00002
Abstract
With increasing age, there are a number of physiological changes that affect the handling of drugs in the human body. Increases in body fat percentage as well as decreases in lean body mass, hepatic...Keywords
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