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Cohort study finds benzodiazepines do not increase risk of dementia
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the brown university psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7532
pISSN - 1068-5308
DOI - 10.1002/pu.30602
Subject(s) - dementia , medicine , cohort , odds , odds ratio , cohort study , psychiatry , disease , logistic regression
Use of benzodiazepines or similar drugs was not found to be associated with risk of subsequent dementia in a nationwide cohort and nested case‐control study of adults. Some users of benzodiazepines actually showed lower odds of developing dementia than nonusers, the researchers reported. Study results were published online April 7 in the American Journal of Psychiatry .