As patients get older, multiple physiologic changes contribute to alterations in pharmacokinetics (i.e., “what the body does to the drug”) and pharmacodynamics (i.e., “what the drug does to the body”); thus, differences in drug dosing are required to achieve the desired pharmacologic effect. [More…]
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