Is usage of hypnotics associated with mortality?

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 279-286

  Mallon, Lena ^a   Broman, Jan Erik ^a   Hetta, Jerker ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

General population; Hypnotics; Longitudinal; Mortality

Indexed keywords

HYPNOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTAL MAIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP TIME; SUICIDE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SUICIDE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

EID: 64449086862     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sleep.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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