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[P1–586]: BENZODIAZEPINE USE IS ASSOCIATED WITH AN INCREASED RISK OF DEMENTIA: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META‐ANALYSIS
Author(s) -
Penninkilampi Ross,
Eslick Guy D.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
alzheimer's and dementia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.713
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1552-5279
pISSN - 1552-5260
DOI - 10.1016/j.jalz.2017.06.602
Subject(s) - dementia , meta analysis , benzodiazepine , observational study , medicine , publication bias , risk factor , psychiatry , disease , receptor
tioning (EXEC), and information processing speed (SPEED) for 1) patients without late-life depression (LLD) and brain abnormalities (global brain atrophy as indicated by the brain parenchymal fraction), hippocampal atrophy, white matter hyperintensities, respectively) (reference group); 2) patients with LLD but without brain abnormalities; 3) patients without LLD and with brain abnormalities; and 4) patients with LLD as well as brain abnormalities.Means are adjusted for age, sex, educational level andpremorbid intellectual functioning. * Significantly (p< 0.05) different from LLD-BPF-. Poster Presentations: Sunday, July 16, 2017 P520