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Study links antidepressant use to falling in nursing homes

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The results of a new study published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology reveals that nursing home residents with dementia who take antidepressants could have a greater risk of falling and injuring themselves.

Nursing home residents who take average doses of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are three times more likely to have an injury-resulting fall than individuals in similar circumstances who do not take the drugs, the study showed.

"Our study also discovered that the risk of an injurious fall increased even more if the residents were also given hypnotic or sedative drugs as sleeping pills," said Carolyn Shanty Sterke, lead author of the study and contributor in the Section of Geriatric Medicine at Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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