Antidepressants tied to higher stroke risk
Study examines older women
Washington Times Older women taking antidepressants face significantly higher risks of stroke and death when compared with their generational cohorts who don't take the drugs, a U.S. study has determined.
In what one of the researchers called the first major look at the mental health of women 50 and older, investigators found that women using antidepressants had a 32 percent higher risk of death than nonusers when all causes of mortality were examined. Their risk of suffering a stroke, fatal or nonfatal, was 45 percent higher ...
