What The Study Did: Researchers analyzed electronic health records for about 83,000 patients diagnosed with COVID-19, including 3,401 patients prescribed selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), to investigate whether SSRIs are associated with a lower risk of death among patients with COVID-19.
Authors: Marina Sirota, Ph.D., of the University of California, San Francisco, and David K. Stevenson, M.D., of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, are the corresponding authors.
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