Rianne A Weersink, Ismael Alvarez-Alvarez, Inmaculada Medina-Cáliz, Judith Sanabria-Cabrera, Mercedes Robles-Díaz, Aida Ortega-Alonso, Miren García-Cortés, Elvira Bonilla, Hao Niu, German Soriano, Miguel Jimenez-Perez, Hacibe Hallal, Sonia Blanco, Neil Kaplowitz, M Isabel Lucena, Raúl J Andrade
Old patients with hepatotoxicity have been scarcely studied in idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (DILI) cohorts. We sought for the distinctive characteristics of DILI in older patients across age groups. A total of 882 DILI patients included in the Spanish DILI Registry (33% ≥65 years) were categorized according to age: "young" (<65y); "young-old" (65-74y); "middle-old" (75-84y); and "oldest-old" (≥85y). All elderly groups had increasingly higher comorbidity burden (p<0...
November 11, 2020: Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics