Thursday, June 07, 2012

Avoid Sudden Death Caused by Sleeping Pills through Natural Sleep Aids

In a new study published by BMJ Open, a journal that is part of the British Medical Journal family publications, it revealed that pharmaceutical sleeping pills used to alleviate insomnia are more likely to put a person in higher risk of cancer and sudden death.

The study suggest that the pharmaceutical sleeping pills content, benzodiazepines, non-benzodiazepines, barbiturates and sedative antihistamines are 4.6 times more possibly to cause death. In fact, people taking the pills are more possibly to die within an average of two and a half year than those who do not take the pills.



The researchers evaluated and analysed data on more than 33,000 for the study and almost one third of which, were taking sleeping pills to treat their insomnia. After adjusting for other risk of factors, the researchers found out that within roughly two years after starting to take the pills, 1 out of 10 sleeping pill patients died while merely 1 out of 10 patients not taking the drug died.

Depending on how often an insomniac person took sleeping pills, the overall death risk was as much as 530% higher than the death rate of patients who do not take the pills. The findings clearly illustrate an absolute and casual link between sleeping pills and higher mortality. Aside from the increased risk of sudden death, sleeping pill users were also found to have an approximately 35% elevated risk of developing cancer compared to non-users.

The researchers said that the meager benefits of hypnotics, as critically reviewed by non-profitable groups, would not justify significant risk. The 2010 supplemental files in an estimate, revealed that the pills may have associated with 507,000 excess deaths in USA alone.

In every research regarding sleeping pills, conclusions are not far similar. Every research ends in one and only conclusion suggesting that the pills can reduce a person’s life span. Therefore, researchers highly recommend the people to take the natural sleep aids than the pharmaceutical ones to avoid the risk of cancers and sudden deaths.

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