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ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2022

Antidepressant use and risk of intubation or death in hospitalized patients with COVID-19: A retrospective cohort study of clinical effectiveness.

Brian P Brennan, Jiana Schnabel, Harrison G Pope, James I Hudson

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Article in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2022. 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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4 authors.

Brian P BrennanPsychiatric Epidemiology Research Program and Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, United States.
Jiana SchnabelPsychiatric Epidemiology Research Program and Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, United States.
Harrison G PopePsychiatric Epidemiology Research Program and Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, United States.
James I HudsonPsychiatric Epidemiology Research Program and Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, United States.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Initial controlled trials of the serotonergic antidepressant fluvoxamine showed promise for treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 in outpatients, although more recent outpatient data have been less encouraging. Turning to studies of hospitalized patients, a retrospective cohort study by Hoertel and associates in 2021 found a markedly reduced risk of intubation or death among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who were receiving serotonergic antidepressants at the time of admission vs. those not receiving antidepressants. In an attempt to replicate these latter findings, we performed a similarly designed study of 500 individuals hospitalized with COVID-19 in a large academic hospital system who were taking a serotonergic antidepressant at the time of admission compared with two groups (

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antidepressantsclinical effectivenessCOVID-19retrospective cohort studyselective serotonin reuptake inhibitorsserotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors

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PMID36186877
PMCPMC9520125

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