Does excessive polypharmacy predict changes in nutritional status, functional ability, and cognitive capacity over a three-year period in an elderly population?
While excessive polypharmacy is associated with worse nutritional, functional, and cognitive status in the elderly, it does not predict the trajectory of decline over a three-year period.
Excessive polypharmacy is associated with decline in nutritional status, functional ability and cognitive capacity in elderly persons. However, the changes in nutrition, physical functionality and cognition over a three-year period cannot be predicted by polypharmacy status.
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