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Persistent Opioid Exposure in Older Adults with Rheumatic Disease: National Patterns, Disparities, and Cross-Specialty Prescribing.

Key takeaways

This report looks at how often older adults with joint disease use opioid painkillers. It is a review of past records, not a test of a new treatment. It shows who uses these drugs, but it does not prove that the drugs cause kidney problems.

Who did this work

Anastasiou C (C. Anastasiou, MD MAS, Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA.) · Roberts E (E. Roberts, PhD, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA.) · Ciccarone D (D. Ciccarone, MD MPH, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco, CA.) · Costenbader K (K. Costenbader, MD MPH, Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation and Immunity, Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.) · Schmajuk G (G. Schmajuk, MD MS, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA; San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA.) · Yazdany J (J. Yazdany, MD MPH, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA; Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA.)

Source

Article · Europe PMC, CKD · 2026-10-15
https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.2026-0220