Antidepressant use and risk of cardiovascular outcomes in people aged 20 to 64: Cohort study using primary care database

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 352, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Coupland, Carol ^a   Hill, Trevor ^a   Morriss, Richard ^b   Moore, Michael ^c   Arthur, Antony ^d   Hippisley Cox, Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; DOSULEPIN; ESCITALOPRAM; FLUOXETINE; LOFEPRAMINE; MIRTAZAPINE; PAROXETINE; SERTRALINE; TRAZODONE; VENLAFAXINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DEPRESSION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT DURATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 84962374872     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i1350     Document Type: Article

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