Drug-related morbidity in more than 12% of adults
More than twelve percent of adults have diseases related to their use of medicines. In forty percent of the cases it would have been possible to avoid the undesired effects. These are the conclusions of a study on 12,000 Sweden adults, presented at the Sahlgrenska Academy.Katja Hakkarainen and her research colleagues have used 7,099 questionnaires and 4,970 patient medical records to map drug-related morbidity. Their work has included side effects, toxicity, the development of drug dependence, the insufficient effect of drugs, and lack of drug treatment. The study is described in Katja