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For people with dementia with Lewy bodies, treatment with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, with or without memantine treatment, appears to be associated with both lower risk of mortality and duration of stay for unplanned hospital admissions for physical

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For people with dementia with Lewy bodies, treatment with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, with or without memantine treatment, appears to be associated with both lower risk of mortality and duration of stay for unplanned hospital admissions for physical health problems

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In your coverage, please use this URL to provide access to the freely available paper in PLOS Medicine: http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1004124

Article Title: Association between antidementia medication use and mortality in people diagnosed with dementia with Lewy bodies in the UK: A retrospective cohort study

Author Countries: United Kingdom, Belgium

Funding: see manuscript

Journal

PLoS Medicine

DOI

10.1371/journal.pmed.1004124

Method of Research

Observational study

Subject of Research

People

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Competing Interests: see manuscript

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