Drugs used for anxiety, sleep are linked to Alzheimer's disease in older people

Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - 14:50 in Health & Medicine

Older people who have relied on a class of drugs called benzodiazepines to reduce anxiety or induce sleep are at higher risk of going on to develop Alzheimer's disease, new research finds, with those whose use of the medications is most intensive almost twice as likely to develop the...

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