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New Study: Alzheimer?s Drugs May Raise Risk of Death

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Anti-psychotic drugs that are commonly prescribed to Alzheimer?s patients to control hallucinations and calm aggression may actually increase the patient?s chance of dying within a few years, says a new study published Friday in the Lancet Neurology medical journal.

”For the vast majority of Alzheimer’s patients, taking these drugs is probably not a worthwhile risk,” Clive Ballard, the paper’s lead author told The New York Times.

”Would I want to take a drug that slightly reduced my aggression but doubled my risk of dying? I’m not sure I would,” Ballard continued.

The research was published Friday in the medical journal, Lancet Neurology. Read the full NYT article.

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Full post as published by The Injury Blog on January 12, 2009 (boomark / email).

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