Nursing home residents with dementia: Antidepressants are associated with increased risk of falling
Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 05:00
in Health & Medicine
Nursing home residents with dementia who use average doses of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are three times more likely to have an injurious fall than similar people who don't use these drugs. The association can be seen in people who use low doses of SSRIs and the risk increases as people take higher doses. The results are published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology.