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- Title
Fatal myocardial infarction and use of psychotropic drugs in young women.
- Authors
Thorogood, M; Cowen, P; Mann, J; Murphy, M; Vessey, M
- Abstract
We have observed an unexpected 17-fold increase in risk of fatal [corrected] myocardial infarction (relative risk 16.9, 95% confidence interval 3.9-72.8) associated with current use of psychotropic drugs. This incidental finding, in a case-control study of cardiovascular mortality in women aged 16-39 not designed to test any hypothesis about psychotropic drugs, should be treated cautiously. There is, however, evidence of a relation between psychiatric morbidity and cardiovascular disease and the association recorded here requires further investigation.
- Publication
Lancet (London, England), 1992, Vol 340, Issue 8827, p1067
- ISSN
0140-6736
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1016/0140-6736(92)93081-w