As per a new data submitted by statistics Canada, people in Canada, who are aged above 80 and older have been seen filling drug prescription, as many as five times in one year as a standard person would.

This shows that they fall prey to the unfavorable effects of drugs that are administered to them, which becomes the No. 1 reason of getting them hospitalized.

The Statistics Canada study stated that in 2005, pharmacists filled a standard of 74 prescriptions for every individual, who was above the age of 80, as contrasted with a standard of 14 prescriptions, for each Canadian.

Usually, specialists have been seen prescribing drugs to elderly for chronic diseases, such as high blood pressure, hypertension, diabetes, Alzheimer's, arthritis, heart ailment and stroke.

Specialists have known that senior Canadians account for the majority of drug consuming lot of the nation however the Statistics Canada evaluation is the foremost to have calculated it at a national level.

There are not only problems related to the adverse reactions from drugs, in general, the health care system burdens millions of them, with the expensive costs, that they have to bear for the treatment procedures.