Benefit of antidepressant medications appears to vary with severity of depression symptoms

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 - 16:49 in Health & Medicine

An analysis of randomized trials indicates that compared with placebo, the magnitude of benefit of antidepressant medications varies with the severity of depressive symptoms, and may provide little benefit for patients with mild or moderate depression, but appear to provide substantial benefit for patients with very severe depression, according to an article in the January 6 issue of JAMA.

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