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| High rate of antidepressant treatment in elderly people who commit suicide | | Author(s) | Margda Waern, Jan Beskow, Bo Runeson, Ingmar Skoog |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 313, no 7065, 2 November 1996 |
| Pages | pp 1118 |
| Keywords | Suicide ; Depression ; Drugs. |
| Annotation | The strong role of affective illness in suicides late in life has been shown repeatedly. The prevailing view is that suicide in the elderly is primarily a question of undiagnosed, untreated depression. During recent years antidepressants which are better tolerated by elderly people have been introduced. The authors examined cases of suicide among old people to see whether they had been taking antidepressants. Their findings emphasise that, once diagnosed, depression in the elderly must be managed with persistence. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970228009 A |
| Classmark | EV: ENR: LLD * |
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