The effects of this substance on patients' health were studied and the findings are quite interesting.
👉🏼 Melatonin users were found to have a higher incidence of new onset heart failure.
👉🏼They were also at increased risk of hospitalisation for heart failure.
👉🏼 Mortality risk was also increased.
☝🏼The study had certain limitations such as relying on electronic health record and claims data, the results are yet to be peer reviewed, cohort members were all insomnia sufferers - so difficult to extrapolate results beyond this group, and the mechanism of 'harm' has not been established.
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