But there is an increasing need to reduce the use of antipsychotic, trazadone - a drug often used as a candidate - associated with similar risk of falls and serious fractures in the old as atypical antipsychotics, cautions fresh study.

But confirmations of performance are limited, antipsychotics and trazadone, a stimulant still used for sleep tasks, are usually prescribed to patients with dementia.

The study demonstrated that patients who took trazadon had a frequency of falls and serious fractures, covering fractures of the leg, similar to those that received atypical antipsychotics.

Apart from this, trazadone was associated with a lower risk of death in patients who use drugs.

"As clinicians aiming to reduce the use of antipsychotics, we are not obliged to consider trazadone as a dimensionally non-dangerous candidate for atypical antipsychotics because the introduction of trazadone has been associated with a comparable risk of falls and leading osteoporotic fractures in atypical antipsychotics.- Jennifer watt, scientific worker of polyclinic of the Immaculate Misha in Toronto

To study posted in the journal Canadian Medical Association Journal, the team included 6588 old people, not so long ago Vasilevich trazadon, 2875, not so long ago Vasilevich atypical antipsychotic.

The frequency of dementia makes almost 25 % of people older than 85 years, according to the study.

” We trust that this information can be used to inform patients and caregivers about the superiority and risks of all kinds of treatments, " said watt.