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Combination Therapy For Some Alzheimer’s Patients May Help Ease Caregiver Distress.
By jeremyc | March 12, 2010
Source: DIA Daily
Medscape (3/10, Harrison) reported that, according to research presented at a geriatric psychiatry meeting, “caregiver distress is significantly attenuated when patients with moderate to severe Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are treated with a combination of extended-release memantine plus a cholinesterase inhibitor (ChEI) vs. ChEI monotherapy.” Researchers came to this conclusion after randomizing “335 patients with a diagnosis of probable AD who had been undergoing stable ChEI therapy for at least three months…to extended-release memantine, 28 mg daily, and another 342 patients” to placebo, then following them for 24 weeks.
Topics: | Alzheimer's/Dementia |
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