Psychiatric agents are among the most commonly prescribed medications. Despite the
advent of newer generation agents, patients receiving them still experience cardiovascular …

Purpose The case‐crossover design is a self‐controlled study design used to compare
exposure immediately preceding an event occurrence with exposure in earlier control …

Aim Depression has been recognized as one of the disorders associated with cardiac
interventions such as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass …

Background: Multiple studies have reported that the use of selective serotonin reuptake
inhibitors (SSRIs) is associated with an increased risk of ischemic stroke; however, this …

Objective To assess whether use of antidepressants with strong inhibition of serotonin
reuptake is associated with a decreased incidence of ischemic stroke and myocardial …

Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) remain widely prescribed for depression and many other
conditions. There may be important differences between individual TCA in regard to their …

Background: The relative availability of the essential amino acid tryptophan in the brain, as
indicated by the tryptophan index, which is the ratio of tryptophan to its competing amino …

Objective To investigate the impact of antidepressants (ATDs) on the risk of myocardial
infarction (MI) among patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). Methods This was a retrospective …

Aims The primary objective of this study was to investigate the association between
antidepressants use and the risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Methods We …

Purpose Antidepressants are some of the most commonly used psychiatric medications, but
little information is available about the effects of antidepressant treatment on the risk of traffic …