Women and patients on more medicines ‘at higher risk of adverse drug reaction’

Women and people prescribed increasing numbers of medicines were more likely to experience an adverse drug reaction, a study has suggested (Chris Ison/PA)

Women and patients on a higher number of medicines are at greater risk of having an adverse drug reaction, a new study of older people has suggested.

One in four experienced at least one adverse drug reaction (ADR) over the six-year period looked at by researchers in Cork.