Medications for depression cause a stroke

Research has shown that one of the world's most popular antidepressants increases the risk of death among patients older than 65 years. People in this age group a higher risk of becoming a victim of serious health problems.

Older people taking the antidepressant Prozac Greater risk to their health than those who adhere to the "old-fashioned" to combat drugs depression . This is the conclusion, researchers from Britain's University of Nottingham and East Anglia.

Prozac belongs to the most popular group of antidepressants - selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). It was found that drugs in this group of patients more likely to cause death from heart attacks, strokes, falls and seizures than the previous generation - tricyclic antidepressants . It is their researchers named the safest for elderly patients. Perhaps because they are written in small doses.

These studies are published in the journal British Medical Journal. Scientists were able to analyze the treatment and side effects in more than 60,000 patients older than 65 years who are diagnosed with depression between 1996 and 2007. It was established that the risk of death in people who do not take any antidepressants, was 7%. Those patients who took tricyclic antidepressants Faced with the risk of death at 8, 1%. Finally, taking   Prozac   and other SSRI class drugs risked dying at 10, 6% of cases. And receiving drugs such as venlafaxine, and mirtazapine, increases the risk of dying by 11, 4%.

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