Do psychiatric disorders and psychotropic medications reduce heart rate variability in individuals with psychiatric disorders?
Psychiatric disorders and specific psychotropic medications are associated with reduced heart rate variability, highlighting a potential mechanism for the elevated cardiovascular risk observed in this population.
Combined findings confirm substantial reductions in HRV across psychiatric disorders, and these effects remained significant even in medication-free individuals. Reductions in HRV may therefore represent a significant mechanism contributing to elevated cardiovascular risk in individuals with psychiatric disorders. The negative impact of specific medications on HRV suggest increased risk for cardiovascular disease in these groups, highlighting a need for treatment providers to consider modifiable cardiovascular risk factors to attenuate this risk.
Alvares et al. (Wed,) studied this question.
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