Do you really believe that benzodiazepines cause Alzheimer

I treat people with anxiety and sleep disorders all the time.  I have seen many people who take the medications daily.  contact I even have plenty of friends contact who have told me they take Xanax or Ativan or some other "benzo " like Valium, Klonopin, Restoril, etc... If you've taken daily doses of one of these meds for contact 180 days (6 months), your risk of Alzheimer's may now be 84% higher. Yeah.  I know.  FREAKY!
It doesn't matter if those 180 days were all together in a 6 months block, or spread out over 5 years.  The increased risk of Alzhemier's is the same. It wasn't a small study that gave me these numbers.  The researchers looked at 10,000 people! 1,800 of them had Alzheimer's disease, the other 8,200 didn't.  Most of them were about 80 years old. The researchers did everything possible did avoid "confounding factors" like the fact that some people who are developing Alzhemier's but don't yet have a diagnosis may be prescribed these medications for their symptoms. So the researchers didn't count any benzo use in the 5 years before diagnosis, it had to be in the five years before that. Short term benzo use was not linked to increased Alzheimer's rates at all.  0% increase for people who took benzo medication for less than 90 days. 90-180 days of benzo medication use caused a 32% increase. 180+ days of benxo use caused the 84% increase. Overall there is a 51% increase in Alzhemier's contact diagnoses among those who took benzodiazepines. Having said all of that.  I am NOT telling people to stop taking their Ativan or other benzo medications.  I am not your doctor, I don't know your situation, and stopping these meds cold turkey could kill you. AND - you should know about this risk.  You should know that 5 millions Americans have Alzhemier's disease.  An overall increase of 51% doesn't mean one or two more people have Alzhemiers because of their anxiety pills.  It contact means an extra 1.5 Million Americans have Alzhemier's because of their anxiety/sleep/epilepsy medications. Now You Know.
Do you really believe that benzodiazepines cause Alzheimer's? The study simply shows a correlation. No causation can be logically inferred. The authors of the paper recognize this. Please do not increase the anxiety of already anxious people by jumping to conclusions. October 8, 2014 at 3:03 PM
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