The Gold Coast Bulletin

Happy pill heart risk

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TAKING anti-depressant­s could increase the risk of an early death from heart disease by a third, a major study suggests.

The drugs do more harm than good, researcher­s claim, and their use should be severely curtailed. Psychiatri­sts disputed the latest findings, arguing that they have been safely used for years and offer a lifeline for depressed people.

But the Canadian study suggests the risk of death is greater than thought among those who don’t have heart disease because anti-depressant­s thin the blood.

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