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Article: Insomnia in Elderly Nursing Home Residents Predicts Risk of Future Falls; Contrary to Common Wisdom, Sleeping Pills May Not Increase Fall Risk.
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- AScribe Health News Service
- Article date:
- April 6, 2005
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Byline: University of Michigan Health System
ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- In nursing homes across the country, elderly people with insomnia often go untreated, because of the perception that sleeping pills increase the risk of falls and injuries that are a bane of old age.
But a large new University of Michigan Health System study suggests that the real culprit may be the underlying insomnia, rather than the medications used to treat it. Residents with untreated, or partially treated, sleeplessness have a much higher risk of falls than those who take sleep medications and get relief from their insomnia.
Even though medications are only one way of ...
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