Are Anti-Depressants Killing Heart Patients?
At a conference over the weekend, researchers announced that a study at Duke University of patients with coronary artery disease had a 55 percent higher risk of death than patients who took no anti-depressants. Researchers are at a loss to explain the finding--and hell I don't even have a guess--especially since it flies in the face of earlier studies showing that anti-depressants helped the same type of patients. In light of this finding, I wonder how many cardiologists are itching to make sure their patients take Prozac and how many law firms are lining up lawsuits.
Posted by Philip Dawdy at March 6, 2006 12:05 AM
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