Mental Health
Risk of death is similar in elderly users of conventional and atypical antipsychotic drugs
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 5th, 2006
According to recent research from the United States, "Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an advisory stating that atypical antipsychotic medications increase mortality among elderly patients. However, the advisory did not apply to conventional antipsychotic medications; the risk of death with these older agents is not known."
"We conducted a retrospective cohort study involving 22,890 patients, 65 years of age or older, who had drug insurance benefits in Pennsylvania and who began receiving a conventional or atypical...
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