Fear of side effects shapes older patients' willingness to take heart medication

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Fear of side effects shapes older patients' willingness to take heart medication

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Faced with the risk of developing side effects, even ones as mild as fatigue, nausea and fuzzy thinking, many older patients are willing to forego medications that provide only average benefit in preventing heart attack, according to a new article.

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Tags: Heart, Heart Disease, Heart Attack, Nausea, Drug, Preventing

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