{"id":2951,"date":"2014-09-09T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2014-09-09T13:58:14","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T18:58:14","slug":"long-term-use-of-pills-for-anxiety-and-sleep-problems-and-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/long-term-use-of-pills-for-anxiety-and-sleep-problems-and-alzheimers\/","title":{"rendered":"Long term use of pills for anxiety and sleep problems and Alzheimer&#8217;s <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Prolonged\u00a0use of benzodiazepines, drugs useful to treat anxiety and insomnia, is linked to higher risks of developing Alzheimer\u2019s disease, a new study indicates. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers looked at the benzodiazepine drug use in 1,796 elderly patients suffering from Alzheimer\u2019s disease living in Quebec and compared them to a control group of elderly without diagnosed cognitive problems. They found that the likelihood of developing Alzheimer&#8217;s disease increases among elderly patients who use benzodiazepines. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Benzodiazepine use was not shown to cause Alzheimer\u2019s, however the authors recommend that unwarranted long term use of these drugs should be considered as a public health concern.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span>\u00a0published in\u00a0the\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">British Medical Journal\u00a0<\/span>on\u00a0<strong>September 9, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Yola Moride, University of Montreal,\u00a0Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sophie Billioti de Gage, University of Bordeaux, France<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prolonged\u00a0use of benzodiazepines, drugs useful to treat anxiety and insomnia, is linked to higher risks of developing Alzheimer\u2019s disease, a new study indicates. Researchers looked at the benzodiazepine drug use in 1,796 elderly patients suffering from Alzheimer\u2019s disease living in Quebec and compared them to a control group of elderly without diagnosed cognitive problems. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[51,53,200,849],"class_list":["post-2951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-neurology","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-LB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2959,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions\/2959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}