30% of the elderly die prematurely due to "drug damage" caused by taking multiple medicines at the same time.
A report from the World Health Organization shows that the world's aging trend is becoming increasingly stronger, and more than one-third of the elderly do not die from diseases but from irrational use of medicines.
The Beijing Evening News reported: The average middle-aged and elderly people in my country suffer from more than three diseases, with the most suffering from more than 11 types of diseases, and they use an average of 4.5 types of medicines. Some elderly people take an incredible 20 types of medicines every day.
According to data from the National Health Ministry's Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Center, in recent years, 192,000 inpatients at all levels of hospitals in my country have died from adverse drug reactions each year, and the number of patients requiring hospitalization due to adverse drug reactions has reached 2.5 million.