Professor Chisato Shimanoe and Rintaro Igawa of the Department of Pharmacy, Saga University Hospital, and a group in the field of preventive medicine at the Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, reported that deaths in people with insomnia who regularly took sleeping pills at least once a week were reported. Using survey data from approximately 1 Japanese people, the high risk was clarified.
This study was conducted from 10 to 2004 as part of the Japan Multicenter Cohort Study (J-MICC study), which tracks approximately 2014 Japanese general residents, and analyzed survey data from 11 areas nationwide. What I did.Of these, those who were concerned about the effects of comorbidities such as cancer and lifestyle-related diseases (diabetes, cardiovascular disease, etc.) were excluded. for the first time to show the mortality risk of Japanese taking
We found that deaths related to cardiovascular, nervous, injury, poisoning, and external factors were more common in people who took sleeping pills compared with those who did not.Men and those under the age of 60 were at particularly high risk of death.Therefore, it can be said that it is necessary to control insomnia especially in these people, considering the risks and benefits of pharmacotherapy more carefully.
The results of this study were based on survey results up to 2014, when benzodiazepine sleeping pills played a major role in the treatment of insomnia. .Therefore, in the future, it will be necessary to evaluate the long-term prognosis of insomnia treatment with individual sleeping pills.It is expected that safe and effective treatments for insomnia will be established, including safer drug therapy and non-drug therapy.
Paper information:[Sleep Medicine] Sex- and age-specific all-cause mortality in insomnia with hypnotics: Findings from Japan Multi-Institutional Collaborative Cohort Study
