Temporal changes in suicide rates for persons treated and not treated with antidepressants in Denmark during 1995-1999

Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 168-176

  Sondergard L ^a   Kvist, K ^b   Lopez, A G ^b   Andersen, P K ^b   Kessing, L V ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Pharmacoepidemiology; Suicide

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; AMOXAPINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; DOSULEPIN; DOXEPIN; FLUOXETINE; FLUVOXAMINE; IMIPRAMINE; ISOCARBOXAZID; LOFEPRAMINE; MAPROTILINE; MIANSERIN; MIRTAZAPINE; MOCLOBEMIDE; NEFAZODONE; NORTRIPTYLINE; OPIPRAMOL; PAROXETINE; PROTRIPTYLINE; REBOXETINE; SERTRALINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRIMIPRAMINE; VENLAFAXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SUICIDE;

EID: 33746925178     PISSN: 0001690X     EISSN: 16000447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2006.00796.x     Document Type: Article

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