Medwire News (6/1, Piper) reports, “Depression in patients with incident rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with a sixfold increased risk for mortality,” investigators concluded in a study that “followed up 11,071 patients with incident RA,” 1,095 of whom “were exposed to antidepressants.” The findings were presented at the EULAR 2022 Congress and published online in a supplemental issue of the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.
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— “Increased mortality risk with antidepressant use in patients with RA ” Lucy Piper, Medwire News, June 1, 2022