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Hypnotic drugs, which many adults take for insomnia, have been associated with increased risks for cancer and death. Investigators clarified the extent of those risks by analyzing the medical records of 10,531 case patients (mean age, 54) who received prescriptions for hypnotic drugs and records of 23,674 matched controls who did not receive such prescriptions. Mortality data were acquired using the Social Security Death Index.
After a mean follow-up of 2.5 years, 6.1% of patients who received hypnotic drug prescriptions and 1.2% of patients who did not receive such prescriptions had died. Adjusted for multiple variables (e.g., age, tobacco use, body-mass index) and stratified by multiple comorbidities, the hazard ratios (HRs) for all-cause …