Antidepressant use is associated with an increased risk of developing microbleeds

Stroke

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 251-254

  Akoudad, Saloua ^a   Aarts, Nikkie ^a   Noordam, Raymond ^a   Ikram, M Arfan ^a   Tiemeier, Henning ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a,b   Stricker, Bruno H ^a,c   Vernooij, Meike W ^a   Visser, Loes E ^a,d  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Netherlands Health Care Inspectorate   (Netherlands)

^d Apotheek Haagse Ziekenhuizen   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

antidepressive agents; cerebral microbleeds; cerebral small vessel diseases; epidemiology; magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COHORT ANALYSIS; MICROVASCULATURE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84952631933     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.115.011574     Document Type: Article

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