ArticleThe International journal of risk & safety in medicine2017
Antidepressants and suicide among young women in Sweden 1999-2013.
Article in The International journal of risk & safety in medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Perinatal Depression and Risk of Suicidal Behavior.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Duty to Warn: Antidepressant Black Box Suicidality Warning Is Empirically Justified.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Review
- Adjunctive vortioxetine for SSRI-resistant major depressive disorder: a "real-world" chart review study.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999) · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo establish whether the young women (15-24 year old) who committed suicide in Sweden (1999-2013) received antidepressant treatment or not, and to what extent, prior to and/or at the time of suicide. To investigate the belief that increased prescription of antidepressants would drastically reduce the number of suicides.
methodsAn analysis of data from the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register, the Causes of Death Register, with registers cross checked, and from the National Board of Forensic Medicine.
resultsThis analysis shows a covariance between increased prescription of antidepressants and an increasing trend in the number of suicides among young women. In the period 1999-2003 antidepressants were found in toxicological analyses done in 23% of the young women who committed suicide, and in 39% of cases for 2009-2013.
conclusionAn increasingly larger proportion of young women who later committed suicide, had in the last few years been treated with antidepressants, prior to and at the time of the suicide. The previous assumptions that treatment with antidepressants would lead to a drastic reduction in suicide rates, are incorrect for the population of young women. On the contrary, it was found that an increasing tendency of completed suicides follow the increased prescription of antidepressants.
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