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April 17, 2012
In Today's Issue
- Weight Loss Expert Loses 70lbs of Ugly Fat...
- Are Sleeping Pills Dangerous To Your Health..?
- Fact: Poor Sleep Increases The Risk of Death/ Disease
Weight Loss Expert Loses 70lbs of Ugly Fat...
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Are Sleeping Pills Dangerous To Your Health..?
Dear Reader,
Trouble sleeping? Turning to non prescription sleep aids might be your best bet according to the findings of an intriguing new study that has shown those who use a particular type of prescription sleeping medication known as hypnotics, even just once in a while, have a higher risk of death than those who don't use these drugs. In fact, the top third of sleeping pill takers had a 5.3-fold higher death risk, and a 35% higher risk of cancer.
Daniel F. Kripke, MD who is emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Diego has been studying a possible link between sleeping pills and risk of death since the mid 1970s. Over the years he and others have conducted and published 18 different studies showing a link between prescription sleep aids and death risk.
For the latest work Kripke and his team examined data from 2002-2007 that came from a large Pennsylvania healthcare practice. They got the medical records for 10,529 patients who had been prescribed hypnotic sleeping pills and 23,676 matched subjects who had never been prescribed these medications. Most of the subjects taking sleeping pills were taking either Ambien or Restoril.
Over an average 2.5 years follow up, the death rate for those who didn't use
sleeping pills was 1.2% - it was 6.1% for those who had prescriptions for sleeping
pills.
Even patients prescribed 18 or fewer sleeping pills in a year had a 3.6-fold
increase in risk of death. Using these findings as a starting point, Kripke
and his team estimate that these medications are associated with 320,000 to
507,000 deaths in the United States each year.
Ambien's maker, Sanofi-Aventis, points out the shortcomings of the study.
Ambien is safe and has 17 years of real world use to back that claim, so
long as it is prescribed and taken according to the labeling on the package.
Patients need to take only the amount their doctor has prescribed, and be
ready for sleep, no driving or drinking alcohol when they use this drug.
While other sleep medications promote relaxation, hypnotics actually cause
you to fall asleep. Some of the medications considered hypnotics include
drugs like Ambien (zolpidem), Restoril (temazepam), Lunesta (eszopiclone),
Sonata (zaleplon), Halcion (triazolam), Dalmane (flurazepam), barbiturates
and antihistamines such as diphenhydramine. Experts agree that hypnotics
are best for those who have very short episodes of sleeping difficulty. Long
term, daily use of these drugs hasn't been well studied because they aren't
supposed to be used that way.
Continues below...
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Are Sleeping Pills Dangerous To Your Health..? Continued...
These medications can help you get the rest you need as you deal with a very
high stress, but short term stress... the loss of a loved one, a divorce or when
traveling and trying to adjust to a different time zone.
Somewhere between two to four weeks of use is typical. Understand that these
drugs do affect the quality of your sleep, and if used too much they leave you
feeling less restored upon waking. Many of them can be habit forming and increase
the effects of alcohol.
The researchers in the study continue to believe these types of sleeping pills
are dangerous, causing cancers and deaths, but as this is an observational study
of medical records (not live subjects) no one is saying sleeping pills are killers,
though the findings do raise red flags.
Understand too that those who take these medications in the first place may often
be sicker than the general population. When prescribing these medications doctors
(and patients) need to remember they do have risks, and one of them is increased
mortality.
Surprisingly sleeping pills aren't considered the best way to treat insomnia.
A short course of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is very effective for those
who have chronic sleeping troubles. If you've tried sleeping pills and still
aren't getting the sleep you need, another brand isn't going to change this;
you need to see a sleep specialist.
To your good health,
Kirsten Whittaker
Daily Health Bulletin Editor
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Sources:
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=155317
Mayo Clinic info on prescription sleeping pills:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sleeping-pills/SL00010
U.S. National Library of Medicine info on Ambien:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0000928/
U.S. National Library of Medicine info on Restoril:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0000808/
Kripke, D. BMJ, published online Feb. 27, 2012:
http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000850
Daniel F. Kripke, MD, professor of psychiatry emeritus, University of California, San Diego:
http://psychiatry.ucsd.edu/faculty/dkripke.html
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