HEALTHY DIETS AND SCIENCE: Your chances of dying go up by 36 per cent when you take a sleeping pill

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Thursday, 16 September 2010

Your chances of dying go up by 36 per cent when you take a sleeping pill

Published in the Can J Psychiatry 2010 55(9):558-567

Mortality Hazard Associated With Anxiolytic and Hypnotic Drug Use in the National Population Health Survey
Geneviève Belleville, PhD

The study looked at 14,117 people to see if sleeping pills and minor tranquilizers, also known as antianxiety agents, have any undesirable outcomes.

This paper can be accessed at: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_7486/is_20100901/ai_n55434205/?tag=content;col1

Overall, the study found that insomnia and anxiety drugs increased the death rate by 36 per cent.

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