Antipsychotics and the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death | Zendy

Sabine M. J. M. Straus | Zendy; Gysèle S. Bleumink | Zendy; Jeanne P. Dieleman | Zendy; Johan van der Lei | Zendy; Geert W. ‘t Jong | Zendy; J. Herre Kingma | Zendy; Miriam Sturkenboom | Zendy; Bruno H. Stricker | Zendy

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Antipsychotics and the Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death

Author(s) -

Sabine M. J. M. Straus,

Gysèle S. Bleumink,

Jeanne P. Dieleman,

Johan van der Lei,

Geert W. ‘t Jong,

J. Herre Kingma,

Miriam Sturkenboom,

Bruno H. Stricker

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinte.164.12.1293

Subject(s) - medicine , sudden cardiac death , sudden death , population , epidemiology , national death index , qt interval , cardiology , confidence interval , hazard ratio , environmental health

Antipsychotics have been associated with prolongation of the corrected QT interval and sudden cardiac death. Only a few epidemiological studies have investigated this association. We performed a case-control study to investigate the association between use of antipsychotics and sudden cardiac death in a well-defined community-dwelling population.

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