Friday, November 2, 2007

Previous Suicidality a Greater Risk Than Antidepressant Medication in Suicidal Teens: Presented at AACAP

Antidepressant drugs have a lesser effect on teenagers' risk of suicidality than do female gender and previous plans to kill oneself within the past year, according to research presented here at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP).

Lead author Neera Ghaziuddin, MD, MRCPsych, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States explained that previous paediatric studies have not examined antidepressants in conjunction with other psychiatric medications in the teenage population. Additionally, antidepressant trials with depressed youth have generally excluded acutely suicidal patients.

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