How to Use polypharmacy in a Sentence

polypharmacy

noun

• The largest group consisted of older adults taking five or more prescription drugs (polypharmacy).
  — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
• Those in the motor disorder group didn’t show any link between polypharmacy and FIM.
  — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 26 Dec. 2025
• The research highlights the growing concern over polypharmacy, the medical term for taking five or more daily prescriptions, and its long-term effects on aging populations.
  — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 30 July 2026
• Interest in deprescribing has grown along with the wider phenomenon of polypharmacy, the term for taking multiple medications, in these cases to manage blood pressure, heart failure, obesity, or diabetes in addition to cholesterol.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 11 Aug. 2026
• In a new study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Yale researchers sought to understand if polypharmacy—when patients take five or more drugs regularly—can be attributed to obesity in individuals aged 65 and older.
  — Amy Anderson, Hartford Courant, 26 June 2026