Antidepressants may hasten decline from dementia, study says. Experts are unconvinced
CNNCNN — Doctors often use antidepressants to manage the depression, anxiety and agitation that accompanies a diagnosis of dementia. “We found that patients with dementia who took antidepressants had greater cognitive decline over time,” said senior study author Sara Garcia Ptacek, an assistant professor in neurosciences at the Karolinska Institute in Solna, Sweden. “However, a major limitation of the study is that the researchers didn’t know if the people that needed antidepressants were more severe and more likely to decline in the first place,” Isaacson said. More importantly, tests of cognitive decline administered during the study showed patients on commonly used antidepressants actually declined more slowly than what is typical for dementia patients overall, Isaacson said. That’s not what this study says.” Much more research needs to be done before an association between antidepressants and cognitive decline can be verified, said Dr. Emma Anderson, an associate professor of epidemiology and genetic epidemiology at University College London, in a statement.
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