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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 703571" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>Feeling. You will find this article, in full, at Forbes.com. But first I want to insert my understanding of the issue. What these researchers are speculating is this: people who are in the early stages of dementia have sleep issues. They turn to these drugs, to treat the sleeplessness which is a symptom of dementia. The dementia causes the sleeplessness. The pills do not cause it.</p><p></p><p>2/4/16 Title: Anxiety medications Valium, Xanax and Ativan May not lead to Dementia After all.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/" target="_blank"><u>Alice G. Walton</u></a></p><p></p><p>(Somehow the first sentence was cut off.)</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g5205" target="_blank"><u>study</u></a> again found that benzodiazepines–Ativan, Valium, and Xanax–which are often used to treat anxiety and sleep problems, were linked to increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease in elderly people. This week, another <a href="http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i90" target="_blank"><u>study</u></a> was published, finding that in the highest doses the same medications are <em>not</em> linked to any increased risk for dementia. And if there is a risk, the authors say, it may be because people with the earliest symptoms of Alzheimer’s, which happen to be anxiety and insomnia, may be treated with the very drugs in question. Which makes the connection all the more difficult to tease apart. (continued at the Forbes.com Site)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"></li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 703571, member: 18958"] Feeling. You will find this article, in full, at Forbes.com. But first I want to insert my understanding of the issue. What these researchers are speculating is this: people who are in the early stages of dementia have sleep issues. They turn to these drugs, to treat the sleeplessness which is a symptom of dementia. The dementia causes the sleeplessness. The pills do not cause it. 2/4/16 Title: Anxiety medications Valium, Xanax and Ativan May not lead to Dementia After all. [URL='http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/'][U]Alice G. Walton[/U][/URL] (Somehow the first sentence was cut off.) [LIST] [*][URL='http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g5205'][U]study[/U][/URL] again found that benzodiazepines–Ativan, Valium, and Xanax–which are often used to treat anxiety and sleep problems, were linked to increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease in elderly people. This week, another [URL='http://www.bmj.com/content/352/bmj.i90'][U]study[/U][/URL] was published, finding that in the highest doses the same medications are [I]not[/I] linked to any increased risk for dementia. And if there is a risk, the authors say, it may be because people with the earliest symptoms of Alzheimer’s, which happen to be anxiety and insomnia, may be treated with the very drugs in question. Which makes the connection all the more difficult to tease apart. (continued at the Forbes.com Site) [*] [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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