A recent meta-analysis indicates that the use of benzodiazepines and benzodiazepine-related drugs (BZRDs) could increase the risk for community-acquired pneumonia (Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2019 Jan 8. doi: 10.1002/gps.5048. [Epub ahead of print]).
The researchers analyzed 12 reports related to 10 studies that involved more than 120,000 cases of pneumonia and found that the odds for developing pneumonia were 1.25-fold higher (95% CI, 1.09-1.44) in users of BZRDs than in those who had not taken