Antidepressant medication prevents suicide in depression

"At the request of the authors and in agreement with the Editor-in-Chief and Wiley-Blackwell, the followingarticle ‘‘Antidepressant medication prevents suicide in depression’’. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2010;122:454–460has been retracted. The retraction has been requested and agreed due to unintentional errors in the analysisof the data presented."
Objective: Ecological studies have demonstrated a substantial decrease in suicide in parallel with an increasing use of antidepressants. To investigate on the individual level the hypothesis that antidepressant medication was a causal factor. Method: Data on the toxicological detection of antidepressants in 18 922 suicides in Sweden 1992-2003 were linked to registers of psychiatric hospitalization as well as registers with sociodemographic data. Results: The probability for the toxicological detection of an antidepressant was lowest in the non-suicide controls, higher in suicides, and even higher in suicides that had been psychiatric inpatients but excluding those who had been in-patients for the treatment of depression. Conclusion: The finding that in-patient care for depression did not increase the probability of the detection of antidepressants in suicides is difficult to explain other than by the assumption that a substantial number of depressed individuals were saved from suicide by postdischarge treatment with antidepressant medication.

Reutfors, J.Karolinska Institute, Sweden (författare)
Papadopoulos, Fotios C.Uppsala universitet,Psykiatri, Akademiska sjukhuset,University Uppsala Hospital, Sweden(Swepub:uu)fotpa105 (författare)
Ösby, U.Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden (författare)
Ahlner, JohanLinköpings universitet,Klinisk farmakologi,Hälsouniversitetet(Swepub:liu)johah59 (författare)
Karolinska University Hospital, SwedenKarolinska Institute, Sweden (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica: Wiley122:6, s. 454-4600001-690X1600-0447

Av författaren/redakt...: Isacsson, G.; Reutfors, J.; Papadopoulos, Fo ...; Ösby, U.; Ahlner, Johan

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