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Sedative-hypnotics improve sleep but are associated with significant adverse effects, including risk of falls and cognitive impairment, especially with long-term usage.
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Sedative–hypnotics of barbiturates, older benzodiazepines, are drugs having high addiction potential (Glass et al., 2005), though provide improvement in sleep, but adverse effects are significant including risk of falls and cognitive impairment especially on long-term usage (Andrade, 2018). To subvert some of the adverse effects of benzodiazepine class sedatives, ‘z’ class drugs were introduced.
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A 2021 study studied this question. Sedative-hypnotics improve sleep but are associated with significant adverse effects, including risk of falls and cognitive impairment, especially with long-term usage.
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