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Our objective was to identify whether such an association exists.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Design<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Systematic review and meta\u2010analysis of 12 prospective and retrospective cohort studies and case\u2010control studies.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Participants<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A total of 981,133 (in the systematic review) and 980,860 (in the meta\u2010analysis) adults or elderly individuals.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Measurements and Main Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A search of the PubMed,\n                      <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">LILACS<\/jats:styled-content>\n                      , and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials databases, as well as a manual search of the reference lists of the included publications and reviews, was performed. We included studies that reported the incidence of dementia and in ever users of benzodiazepines. Data were analyzed by using a random effects model in R software. Quality of the evidence was assessed with the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (\n                      <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">GRADE<\/jats:styled-content>\n                      ) certainty ratings system. The results of the main meta\u2010analysis suggest that benzodiazepines can be a risk factor for developing dementia (odds ratio 1.38, 95% confidence interval 1.07\u20131.77;\n                      <jats:italic>I<\/jats:italic>\n                      <jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup>\n                      = 98%; 95% prediction interval 0.58\u20133.25; very low certainty).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our results suggest an association between the use of benzodiazepines and the development of dementia. However, the current evidence lacks the power to infer differences between the effects of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementias, long\u2010acting and short\u2010acting benzodiazepines, and various exposure loads (duration and dose). 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