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by ecwilson
342 days ago
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Medical journalists are incentivized to make you concerned. I highly suggest all medical journalism be run through a good AI to be put into context. https://chatgpt.com/share/68709753-d2ec-8010-ba8b-e7b57d610e... TLDR: The paper offers an interesting signal that heavy gabapentin prescribing tracks with higher dementia/MCI diagnoses, especially in 35-64-year-olds. Yet substantial unmeasured confounding, possible reverse causality, and modest absolute risk increments mean we’re far from proving gabapentin is neurotoxic. It’s a reminder to prescribe purposefully, review regularly, and keep cognition on the monitoring checklist—but not a reason for abrupt discontinuation in patients who benefit.
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