Tuesday, 8 January 2019

Certain psychiatric drugs linked with elevated pneumonia risk

(Wiley) A review of published studies indicates that use of benzodiazepines and benzodiazepine related drugs (BZRDs), which are prescribed to treat various psychiatric diseases, may increase the risk of pneumonia.The International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry analysis included 12 reports related to 10 studies involving more than 120,000 pneumonia cases.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://bit.ly/2Rk7UI0

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