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Antipsychotic medication was prescribed to 26% of the patients and they too had DAD scores lower than patients not prescribed antipsychotic medication (64% vs. 72%, t-test, p-value < 0.001).
Antipsychotic medication use was also consistently found to be a predictor of having an increased risk of disability, regardless of how dependence was measured.
In addition to the two measures of cognitive functioning, age, gender, time since onset of cognitive problems, use of antipsychotic medication, presence of extrapyramidal symptoms, and living situation were considered as potential predictors.
Olanzapine is a newer atypical antipsychotic agent with a pharmacological profile very similar to that of clozapine [ 11 ] . In human brain tissue, olanzapine displays very high affinity for the H1 histamine receptor, high affinity for 5-HT2A and 5-HT2C receptors [ 12 ] . In addition it also shows affinity for D2, muscarinic, and alpha1 receptors, with lower affinity for alpha2, 5-HT1D and 5-HT1A receptors (Table 1 [ 12 ] ).
The odds ratio for both categorical measures of dependence was significantly higher with worse cognitive impairment, increasing with each detrimental point change in ADAS-cog or MMSE score, adjusting for age, gender and use of antipsychotic medication (Table 2).
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