Anticholinergic drugs can treat a variety of conditions, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), bladder conditions, and gastrointestinal disorders, among others. Many types of drugs ...

Many drugs commonly prescribed to the elderly have anticholinergic properties. Due to the current clinical use of drugs with mild-to-modest anticholinergic activity, the clinical manifestations of ...

If you opened your medicine cabinet right now, chances are you’d find an anticholinergic medication. These drugs have been around for decades and are used for a range of common conditions including ...

The Anticholinergic Drug Scale (ADS), developed by Boustani et al., was created to address the issue of anticholinergic burden. This term refers to the cumulative effect of using multiple medications ...

The classic symptoms associated with anticholinergic toxicity include tachycardia, flushing, urinary retention, hyperthermia, blurred vision, and confusion and delirium, which are mediated through ...