HealthDay - Improving the Odds for Stroke Survivors
Giving antidepressants to stroke survivors — whether they’re depressed or not — may improve their chances of living longer.
That startling finding comes from a University of Iowa study in the October issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry .
The study included 104 stroke patients randomly assigned to receive nortriptyline (Aventyl or Pamelor), fluoxetine (Prozac) or a placebo for three months after their stroke. The researchers examined patient death data nine years later.
About 68 percent of the 53 patients who received all three months of antidepressants were alive after nine years, compared with about 36 percent of the 28 patients who took the placebo for the same amount of time.
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When they analyzed the causes of death, the researchers found that patients who took the antidepressants were less likely to die from cardiovascular …
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