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Women are 50% to 75% more likely than men to experience an adverse drug reaction.
Hip fractures are the most serious consequences of osteoporosis. The incidence of hip fractures increases with each decade among patients in their 60s to patients in their 90s for both women and men of all populations. Men and women older than 80 years of age show the highest incidence of hip fractures.
For pediatric patients, intravenous fluids are the most commonly cited products involved in medication errors that are reported to the USP.
Lower drug doses for elderly patients should be used first, with titrations of the dose as tolerated to prevent unwanted drug-related pharmacodynamic effects.
In 1844, Charles Goodyear obtained the first patent for a rubber condom.