enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Donepezil - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donepezil

    Donepezil, sold under the brand name Aricept among others, is a medication used to treat dementia of the Alzheimer's type. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 8 ] It appears to result in a small benefit in mental function and ability to function. [ 9 ]

  3. Memantine/donepezil - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memantine/donepezil

    Memantine/donepezil, sold under the brand name Namzaric among others, is a fixed dose combination medication used for the treatment of dementia of the Alzheimer's type. [1] It contains memantine , as the hydrochloride, a NMDA receptor antagonist ; and donepezil as the hydrochloride, an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor . [ 1 ]

  4. Cholinesterase inhibitor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholinesterase_inhibitor

    Paraoxon and rivastigmine are both acetylcholinesterase inhibitors and butyrylcholinesterase inhibitors. [14] [11] [7]In 2015, the United States Food and Drug Administration's Adverse Event Reporting System database compared rivastigmine to the other ChEI drugs donepezil and galantamine found that rivastigmine was associated with a higher frequency of reports of death as an adverse event.

  5. A Common Drug Could Lower Your Dementia Risk By 35 ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/common-drug-could-lower-dementia...

    Not only that, they had a 52 percent lower risk of vascular dementia, and a 39 percent lower risk of Alzheimer’s dementia. People who took SGLT-2 inhibitors for longer periods of time seemed to ...

  6. A diabetes drug may help prevent dementia, new research shows

    www.aol.com/diabetes-drug-may-help-prevent...

    When the scientists looked at dementia subtypes, they found that SGLT-2 inhibitors were linked to 52% lower risk of vascular dementia, and 39% lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

  7. Memantine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memantine

    Memantine when added to donepezil in those with moderate-to-severe dementia resulted in "limited improvements" in a 2017 review. [24] The UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) issued guidance in 2018 recommending consideration of the combination of memantine with donepezil in those with moderate-to-severe dementia.

  8. Antibiotic use does not increase dementia risk, study suggests

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/antibiotic-does-not...

    Using antibiotics 1 to 5+ times. The researchers used Australian data from ASPREE (ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly), a randomized trial of community-based older adults.. They identified ...

  9. Rivastigmine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivastigmine

    Rivastigmine, sold under the brand name Exelon among others, is an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor used for the treatment of dementia associated with Alzheimer's disease and with Parkinson's disease. [ 4 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Rivastigmine can be administered orally or via a transdermal patch ; the latter form reduces the prevalence of side effects, [ 8 ...