催眠的使用和失眠患者心血管疾病的风险

Yao Xie1, Shiyu Zhu1, Shuang Wu1

  • 1Department of Cardiology, State Key Laboratory of Transvascular Implantation Devices, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, 88 Jiefang Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310009, China.

概括

在失眠的个体中使用二胺与心血管风险增加有关,包括心脏病和死亡. 然而,Z型药物在这个人群中没有显著的心血管危险.

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