HealthDay News — For cardiac patients, use of psychotropic medication is connected with enhanced mortality, according to a study lately published in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

Pernille Fevejle Cromhout, Ph.D., from Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark, and colleagues examined the association in between use of psychotropic medication, anxiousness, and all-result in, one particular-year mortality amongst cardiac patients from the DenHeart survey.

Data have been integrated for 12,913 patients, of whom 18% utilised psychotropic medication and 3% died inside 1 year. Psychotropic medication use was larger amongst girls, older patients, smokers, widowed patients, these with decrease education, and patients with more comorbidity. Psychotropic medication was utilised by 28% of patients with symptoms of anxiousness and 14% of these devoid of anxiousness. The researchers located that psychotropic medication use was connected with enhanced 1-year, all-result in mortality (odds ratio, 1.90). Following hospital discharge, patients with symptoms of anxiousness have been substantially more most likely to use psychotropic medication (odds ratio, 2.47).

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“The use of psychotropic medication might partially explain the higher mortality among cardiac patients with symptoms of anxiety,” the authors create. “However, the higher mortality among cardiac patients with symptoms of anxiety could be attributable to an underlying psychiatric illness rather than the use of psychotropic medication.”

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Anxiety Disorders