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For Dialysis Patients, More Pills = Lower Quality of Life
Posted 3+ months ago by Drugs.com
WEDNESDAY, May 13 – The more pills that kidney dialysis patients take, the more side effects they suffer and the worse their quality of life, a new study finds.
Dialysis patients have to take more pills than most patients with other chronic diseases. In this study, researchers at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute looked at the "pill burden" in 233 dialysis patients in the United States.
The patients took an average of 19 pills a day, but 25 percent took more than 25 pills a day. Patients with a high pill burden reported poorer physical health. Read more...
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