Persons with Alzheimer’s disease are more often hospitalized after initiating antibiotic use

Persons with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are more often hospitalized after antibiotic initiation than people without AD, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows. The risk of hospitalization was 40 per cent higher for persons with Alzheimer’s disease. The findings were published in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. Out of individual antibiotics, persons with Alzheimer’s disease were more often hospitalized than people without AD after the initiation of cephalexine, pivmecillinam, amoxicillin and doxycycline. Hospitalization was associated with pre-existing illnesses, such as