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March 31, 2025 – Researchers divided the group into those who used antidepressants and those who didn’t. Of the 6,002 sudden cardiac deaths—an unexpected death caused by a heart-related issue—in the population, they found that the prevalence of sudden cardiac death was much higher in those who took antidepressants than those who didn’t.
“Exposure time to antidepressants was associated with a higher risk of sudden cardiac death, and linked to how long the person had been exposed to antidepressants,” study co-author Dr. Jasmin Mujkanovic of Rigshospitalet Hjertecentret, Copenhagen, Denmark, said in the press release. “Those exposed for six years or more were at even more increased risk than those exposed for one to five years, when compared with people unexposed to antidepressants in the general population.”
