Study: These are the types of drugs that increase the chances of death by 55%

Experts have conducted a long-term study with about 500,000 people on the relationship between sleep duration and the use of sleeping pills and mortality.

The observation published in "Sleep Health" showed some rather surprising results, with 8.9% of participants who took sleeping pills at the start of the study dying during the follow-up period (about 10 years), compared to 3.4% of those who did not. they took pills.

Sleep medication users may live 5 years less and have a higher mortality risk. Specifically, they have a 55% higher mortality risk compared to those who do not use them.

Researchers perform adjusted analyzes (adjusting for age, sex, medical history, etc.), and increasingly they are convinced that there is an increase in mortality among those taking sleeping pills...It is difficult to give an overall number, as they did not perform a global analysis comparing all "sleeping pill takers" with "non-takers".

The doubling of mortality was higher when comparing those who took pills and slept more than 8 hours, with those who did not take pills and slept 6-8 hours. It turned out that 3.5% of the participants died during the study and their data was not obtained until the end.