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The Lancet

Volume 340, Issue 8827, 31 October 1992, Pages 1067-1068
The Lancet

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Fatal myocardial infarction and use of psychotropic drugs in young women

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Abstract

We have observed an unexpected 17-fold increase in risk of total myocardial infarction (relative risk 16·9, 95% confidence interval 3·9-72·8) associated with current use of psychotropic drugs. This incidental finding, in a case-control study of cardiovascular mortality in women aged 16-39 not designed to test any hypothesis about psychotropic drugs, should be treated cautiously. There is, however, evidence of a relation between psychiatric morbidity and cardiovascular disease and the association recorded here requires further investigation.

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