%0 Journal Article
%T Antidepressant treatment and mortality risk in patients with dementia and depression: a nationwide population cohort study in Taiwan
%A Chih-Cheng Chang
%A Chung-Ying Lin
%A Hsuan-Min Wang
%A Jian-An Su
%A Ko-Jung Chen
%A Yao-Hsu Yang
%J Archive of "Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease".
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2040622319853719
%X Dementia prevalence is increasing worldwide, and dementia is frequently comorbid with depression during its disease course. Additionally, safety concerns are rising regarding the prescription of psychotropic agents to patients with dementia. Thus, our study assessed the influence of prescribing antidepressants in dementia with depression on mortality risk, and the differences between classes of antidepressants
%K antidepressants
%K dementia
%K depression
%K longitudinal study
%K mortality
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6552355/