Less than 10% of the trospium dose is absorbed following oral administration; peak plasma concentrations (Cmax) are achieved five to six hours after a single dose. Exposure causes a decrease in the Cmax and an area-under-the-curve (AUC) concentration of up to 59% and 33%, respectively, for evening doses and morning doses. Because high-fat meals decrease [...]
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5 May 2010INTRODUCTION Overactive bladder (OAB) is a symptom syndrome that refers to the layered, smooth muscle that surrounds the bladder, the detrusor muscle. This muscle contracts spastically, sometimes without a known cause, resulting in sustained, high bladder pressure and the urgent need to urinate. People with OAB often experience urgency at inconvenient and unpredictable times. This [...]
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3 May 2010I would like to ask your readers to take advantage of this opportunity to raise awareness of an often silent, frequently underestimated disease state affecting our patient populations: deep vein thrombosis (DVT).
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2 May 2010As a response to this mounting public health crisis, more than 60 organizations assembled in Washington in February 2003 to discuss the urgent need to make DVT a top public health priority. At this meeting, co-hosted by the APHA and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), participants agreed to establish a coalition of organizations committed [...]
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1 May 2010Many of the health plans that will be offering Medicare outpatient drug benefits, which are scheduled to begin on January 1, 2006, will decide to use a formulary, in order to control costs and for clinical common sense. Although these “Part D” drug plans will have flexibility in developing their own formularies, they will have [...]
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