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While that passage is interesting in how it links to the article in OP, I find the article you shared to be significantly more interesting. I’ve always heard co

While that passage is interesting in how it links to the article in OP, I find the article you shared to be significantly more interesting. I’ve always heard convincing links between poor sleep and poor health but I never knew there was such a controversial link between hypnotics and increased mortality, that’s a bit terrifying

CommieBobDole 7y ago
However, the gist of the article is that probably most of the earlier studies aren't adjusting for enough factors, and when someone did, the links went away. Basically, if your study says that taking Ambien doubles your risk of cancer, bubonic plague, dying in a plane crash (where you are not the pilot) and being shot by snipers, the study is probably wrong. Given that it's a drug taken for sleep difficulties, and the number of possible things that can cause sleep difficulties (near the top of the list: stress, from literally innumerable sources), and the fact that sleep difficulties take a medical toll, as well as do many of the primary, secondary, and tertiary causes of sleep difficulties, it's very hard to account for that in a study.