Pharmacological management—inhaled treatment

Pharmacological Treatment of Insomnia.

Up to 70 million U.S. adults have chronic sleep and wakefulness disorders. Therapies may include prescription medications approved by the Food and Drug Administration, off-label treatments, over-the-counter drugs, and herbal therapies.

Pharmacological treatment of dementia.

CRD summary The authors concluded that pharmacotherapy can improve cognitive symptoms and outcomes, there is some evidence for delay in disease progression, and some agents were shown to be effective in patients with vascular dementia. However, few head-to-head studies were found and there were insufficient data relating to efficacy in different subgroups of patients. Despite some minor limitat...

Metabolic syndrome: pharmacological treatment

Patients with the metabolic syndrome have a clustering of the following risk factors: detrimental changes in glucose tolerance and insulin resistance, abdominal (visceral) obesity, atherogenic dyslipidemia, hypertension. In addition to appropriate changes in lifestyle, the majority of patients with the syndrome will require pharmacological treatment, usually for the remainder of their lives. We...

Pharmacological Treatment of UrinaryIncontinence

Pharmacological basis of treatment

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