Antipsychotic drugs and the risk of ventricular arrhythmia and/or sudden cardiac death: a nation-wide case-crossover study.

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Published in J Am Heart Assoc on February 23, 2015

Authors

Chi-Shin Wu1, Yu-Ting Tsai2, Hui-Ju Tsai3

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Psychiatry, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan (C.S.W.) College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (C.S.W.) Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan (C.S.W.).
2: Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan (Y.T.T., H.J.T.).
3: Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan (Y.T.T., H.J.T.) Department of Public Health, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan (H.J.T.) Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL (H.J.T.).

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