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The research team
compared the death rates of demented veterans based upon new outpatient
exposures to various classes of psychiatric drugs.
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Of the 12,821
patients who avoided exposure to psychiatric drugs, 18% died within one year.
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Of the 10,615
patients who experienced treatment with antipsychotic drugs, death rates were
consistently higher:
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23% exposed to
newer “atypical” antipsychotics died within 1 year
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25% exposed to
older antipsychotics died within 1 year
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29% exposed to
both (sequentially or concurrently) died within 1 year
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