Antidepressant Users Have Higher Heart Attack Risk

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[sSRI-Research] Antidepressant Users Have Higher Heart Attack

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Heart Center Online, Wed, 30 Mar 2005 5:30 AM PST

HeartCenterOnline For Patients - Antidepressant users have higher heart

attack risk

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Mar 30 (Reuters Health) - Users of tricyclic antidepressants or

selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) appear to have a short-

term increased risk of having a first heart attack, UK researchers

report.

 

Reuters via News, Tue, 29 Mar 2005 1:09 PM PST

Antidepressant Users Have Higher Heart Attack Risk

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Users of tricyclic antidepressants or selective serotonin reuptake

inhibitors (SSRIs) appear to have a short-term increased risk of having

a first heart attack, UK researchers report. However, they note that

this may be due to depression-related effects rather than to the agents

themselves [oh yea, right].