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http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/728027
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Sep 02 - Antidepressants rarely trigger suicidal thoughts or behaviors, suggests a large study of patients in European psychiatric hospitals.
But some experts question the data in the study, saying suicidal thoughts or behaviors were probably written off as part of the patient's illness, or that some cases of patients feeling or acting suicidal might have been missed altogether.
The authors of the current study, led by Dr. Susanne Stubner of Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, analyzed medical reports from a drug surveillance program covering more than 300,000 patients treated in psychiatric hospitals in Germany, Austria and Switzerland between 1993 and 2008. The data included 142,090 adult patients, who were taking at least one antidepressant, most commonly mirtazapine or venlafaxine.
The researchers found just 33 patients who had thoughts of wanting to commit suicide that doctors judged to be "possibly" or "probably" related to the drug. Eighteen of these patients tried to commit suicide and three more completed suicides.
Just over half of these patients were taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), and 45% were also taking benzodiazepines. In the entire study group of patients on antidepressants, 37% were taking SSRIs and 32% were on benzodiazepines in addition
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