Taking Benzodiazepines for Anxiety and Insomnia Increase Risk of Alzheimer’s Deaths, Study Finds

Alzheimer’s patients who take benzodiazepines for anxiety, agitation, and insomnia are at a 40 percent greater risk of death than those who don’t take the therapies, a study reports. The research, “Risk of death associated with new benzodiazepine use among persons with Alzheimer disease: A matched cohort study,” was published in…

Benzodiazepines Linked to 43% Increased Risk of Hip Fracture in Alzheimer’s Patients

A new research study has found that the use of benzodiazepines and related drugs increases the risk of hip fracture by 43 percent in people with Alzheimer’s disease. The study was conducted in community-dwelling Finnish people with Alzheimer’s who were evaluated for their hip fracture risk. The results of…