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Psychotropic medications and mental disorders are discussed as potential external modifiable factors that may increase vulnerability to fatal arrhythmias leading to sudden cardiac death.
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Do psychotropic medications increase the risk of sudden cardiac death?
Do psychotropic medications increase the risk of sudden cardiac death?
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The text introduces the topic of psychotropic medications as potential external modifiable risk factors for sudden cardiac death.
S udden cardiac death (SCD) accounts 1 out of 2 deathsfrom cardiovascular diseases.1 Identification of factors increasing the risk of SCD has been a challenge for both scientists and clinicians for decades, and the risk factors of SCD have been intensively studied. Some factors have already been identified that increase the risk of SCD.2 Currently recognized risk factors mainly reflect the demographic features and severity of underlying cardiac disorder itself,2,3 such as male gender, abnormalities in 12-lead and 24-hour ECG, or left ventricular ejection fraction,2,3 but there has been less information about the external modifiable factors, such as use of various medications, that may increase the vulnerability to fatal arrhythmias leading to SCD. Mental disorders have been associated with increased risk of cardiovascular mortality and sudden cardiac death (SCD).4–6 There is also increasing evidence suggesting that
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Heikki V. Huikuri (2015) conducted an editorial in Sudden cardiac death. Psychotropic medications was evaluated on Sudden cardiac death. Psychotropic medications and mental disorders are discussed as potential external modifiable factors that may increase vulnerability to fatal arrhythmias leading to sudden cardiac death.
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