Psychotropic Medications May Increase Risk of Death
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Psychotropic Medications and the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death
S udden cardiac death (SCD) accounts 1 out of 2 deaths from cardiovascular diseases. Identification of factors increasing the risk of SCD has been a challenge for both scientists and clinicians for decades, and the risk factors of SCD have been intensively studied. Some factors have already been identified that increase the risk of SCD. Currently recognized risk factors mainly reflect the demog...
متن کاملPsychotropic medications and the risk of sudden cardiac death during an acute coronary event.
AIMS Psychotropic medication increases cardiac mortality, but the reasons for this association are not clear. We studied the role of psychotropic drugs as a triggering factor of sudden cardiac death (SCD) during an acute coronary event. METHODS AND RESULTS The use of medication was compared between victims of SCD and survivors of an acute coronary event in a case-control study including a con...
متن کاملUtilisation of psychotropic medications
The timely article by Verdoux & Begaud ́ hopefully begins to redress the imbalance between randomised controlled trials and other ways of evaluating drug treatments. I would like to present further evidence for the ‘gap between guidelines and utilisation . . . for psychotropic medications’ (Verdoux & Begaud, 2004). ́ Using the Drug Report of the German Public Health Insurance (Schwabe & Pfaffrath...
متن کاملUtilisation of psychotropic medications
The timely article by Verdoux & Begaud ́ hopefully begins to redress the imbalance between randomised controlled trials and other ways of evaluating drug treatments. I would like to present further evidence for the ‘gap between guidelines and utilisation . . . for psychotropic medications’ (Verdoux & Begaud, 2004). ́ Using the Drug Report of the German Public Health Insurance (Schwabe & Pfaffrath...
متن کاملUtilisation of psychotropic medications.
The timely article by Verdoux & Begaud ́ hopefully begins to redress the imbalance between randomised controlled trials and other ways of evaluating drug treatments. I would like to present further evidence for the ‘gap between guidelines and utilisation . . . for psychotropic medications’ (Verdoux & Begaud, 2004). ́ Using the Drug Report of the German Public Health Insurance (Schwabe & Pfaffrath...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Caring for the Ages
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1526-4114
DOI: 10.1016/j.carage.2015.10.011