Trends in Psychotropic Drug-Implicated Cardiovascular Mortality: Patterns in U.S. Mortality, 1999-2020.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Psychotropic drug-implicated (PDI) mortality-deaths in which psychotropic drugs were a contributing but not underlying cause of death-increased over two decades, with circulatory mortality as the primary cause leading to such deaths. Trends in PDI circulatory mortality over a 22-year period and its patterning in U.S. deaths are described.

Methods

Deaths extracted from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research Multiple Causes of Death database from 1999 to 2020 were analyzed to generate annual counts and rates for drug-implicated deaths due to diseases of the circulatory system, including by specific drug, sex, race/ethnicity, age, and state.

Results

During a period when overall age-adjusted circul

SUBMITTER: Kelly BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10440260 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature