Anti-depressants 'up stroke risk' (BBC) {in post-menopause women}

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Post menopausal women who take anti-depressants face a small - but statistically significant - increased risk of a stroke, research suggests.

The US study was based on 136,293 women aged 50 to 79, who were followed for an average of six years.

Anti-depressant users were 45% more likely to have a stroke than women not taking the drugs.

The data, published in Archives of Internal Medicine, is taken from the Women's Health Initiative Study.

When overall death rates were examined, those on anti-depressants were found to have a 32% higher risk of death from all causes during the study than non-users.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8408783.stm




May not be cause and effect, but only correlation; see the article.

[bananas]

1. What about the down stroke?

[Confusious]

2. Could be to that the people taking them

Have more problems with anxiety and higher blood pressure then those who do not.