An electronic health records study of long-term weight gain following antidepressant use.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Short-term studies suggest antidepressants are associated with modest weight gain but little is known about longer-term effects and differences between individual medications in general clinical populations.

Objective

To estimate weight gain associated with specific antidepressants over the 12 months following initial prescription in a large and diverse clinical population.

Design, setting, and participants

We identified 22,610 adult patients who began receiving a medication of interest with available weight data in a large New England health care system, including 2 academic medical centers and affiliated outpatient primary and specialty care clinics. We used electronic health records to extract prescribing data and recorded weights for any patient with an

SUBMITTER: Blumenthal SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9980723 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature