Increased use of antidepressants and decreasing suicide rates: A population-based study using Danish register data

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 448-454

  Erlangsen, A ^a,b   Canudas Romo, V ^c   Conwell, Y ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

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; TRIMIPRAMINE;

DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DISEASE TREATMENT; DRUG; ELDERLY POPULATION; MORTALITY; SUICIDE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DEPRESSION; DRUG UTILIZATION; DYING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGISTER; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE; TIME OF DEATH;

AGE FACTORS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; DENMARK; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE;

DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 42549111771     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2007.061580     Document Type: Article

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