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. 2025 Apr 12;11(1):28.
doi: 10.1038/s41514-025-00220-5.

Drug safety in healthy aging

Nikola Panajotovikj  1   2 , Adrià Fernández-Torras  1 , Jordi Mestres  3   4
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Drug safety in healthy aging

Nikola Panajotovikj et al. NPJ Aging. .
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Competing interests: All authors are employees of Chemotargets SL.

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Distribution of the world population demographics reproduced from the United Nations World Social Report 2023 (left; black line marks the present date) and drug safety demographics from the United States Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System (right) across broad age groups.
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