Evaluation of rheumatoid arthritis pharmacotherapy of elderly people in real clinical practice in the south of Kyrgyzstan

Research relevance: actual practice of pharmacotherapy in elderly patients does not always meet standards of treatment and recommendations, and currently there are no publicly available works on the age-related characteristics of the rheumatoid arthritis pharmacotherapy which complicates analysis and interpretation of the obtained results. Research objectives: to conduct a pharmacoepidemiological analysis in order to assess the actual use of drugs in elderly patients with rheumatoid arthritis and to identify their irrational use and increase the effectiveness of pharmacotherapy. Research methods and materials: case histories of 119 elderly patients treated from 2015 to 2018 with a clinical diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis in the Department of Rheumatology of the Osh Interregional Clinical Hospital of Kyrgyzstan were analyzed. Research results: the individual characteristics of elderly patients, comorbidities should determine the choice of a specific treatment regimen. Conclusion: when analyzing the pharmacotherapy of rheumatoid arthritis in elderly people, insufficient use of basic anti-inflammatory drugs with proven efficacy was revealed.