Antidepressants and the risk of sudden cardiac death and ventricular arrhythmia.

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Published in Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf on July 28, 2011

Authors

Charles E Leonard1, Warren B Bilker, Craig Newcomb, Stephen E Kimmel, Sean Hennessy

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, and Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021, USA. celeonar@mail.med.upenn.edu

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