Antidepressant utilisation and incidence of weight gain during 10 years’ follow-up: population based cohort study

Gafoor, Rafael; Booth, Helen; Gulliford, Martin

doi:10.1136/bmj.k1951

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Antidepressant utilisation and incidence of weight gain during 10 years’ follow-up: population based cohort study

Published in BMJ • May 23, 2018

Authors:

Rafael Gafoor

Helen Booth

Martin Gulliford

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the long term association between antidepressant prescribing and body weight. DESIGN: Population based cohort study. SETTING: General practices contributing to the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink, 2004-14. PARTICIPANTS: 136 762 men and 157 957 women with three or more r...

Subject

Medicine

Rate ratio

Overweight

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