{"id":210672,"date":"2025-04-06T01:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T06:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/sudden-cardiac-death-does-long-term-antidepressant-use-affect-risk"},"modified":"2025-04-06T01:10:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T06:10:20","slug":"sudden-cardiac-death-does-long-term-antidepressant-use-affect-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/sudden-cardiac-death-does-long-term-antidepressant-use-affect-risk","title":{"rendered":"Sudden cardiac death: Does long-term antidepressant use affect risk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sudden-cardiac-death-does-long-term-antidepressant-use-affect-risk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers categorized participants by whether or not they had experienced SCD, and by their antidepressant medication use \u2014 between 1 and 5 years, or 6 years and longer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At the study\u2019s conclusion, researchers found that participants who used antidepressants for a period of 1 to 5 years had a 56% increased risk of SCD.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Participants who used antidepressants for 6 or more years had a 2.2 times higher risk for SCD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers categorized participants by whether or not they had experienced SCD, and by their antidepressant medication use \u2014 between 1 and 5 years, or 6 years and longer. At the study\u2019s conclusion, researchers found that participants who used antidepressants for a period of 1 to 5 years had a 56% increased risk of SCD. Participants [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}