Antidepressants Double Death Risk in Intensive Care

2
347

Analysis of 10,568 critically ill patients’ records by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and MIT finds that those on antidepressants were almost twice as likely to die, though the correlation is not explained by the study. The research will be presented at this week’s American Thoracic Society International Conference in San Francisco.

Abstract → 

***

Mad in America hosts blogs by a diverse group of writers. These posts are designed to serve as a public forum for a discussion—broadly speaking—of psychiatry and its treatments. The opinions expressed are the writers’ own.

2 COMMENTS

LEAVE A REPLY