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Study finds no more than minor increase in mortality risk from benzodiazepines
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the brown university psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7532
pISSN - 1068-5308
DOI - 10.1002/pu.30271
Subject(s) - confounding , minor (academic) , medicine , retrospective cohort study , residual risk , demography , emergency medicine , humanities , philosophy , sociology
A retrospective cohort study comparing outcomes for initiators and noninitiators of benzodiazepines has found at most a minor increase of all‐cause mortality associated with initiation. Researchers proposed that residual confounding probably accounts for at least part of the increased risk. Study results were published online July 6 in BMJ .