Mortality and use of psychotropic medication in sleep apnoea patients: a population-wide register-based study

All-cause mortality was higher in OSA patients and especially controls treated with benzodiazepines, antidepressants or antipsychotics than in untreated controls. The findings were not controlled for psychiatric comorbidity and the results may have partly been attributable to confounding by indication. The results raised the possibility that the use of psychotropic medication may have deleterious health consequences, but the risk did not seem to be higher in OSA than in controls.