Published June 23, 2018

Researchers from the University of Zurich in Switzerland reviewed data from 8,911 heart attack patients who had been discharged from hospitals between March 2005 and August 2016. They found that 565 patients (6.3%) had received antidepressants at discharge. The researchers compared the patients who received these drugs with those who didn’t and found that the two groups had similar rates of stroke and repeat heart attacks, but those who had been prescribed the antidepressants were much less likely to survive the incident.

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Published June 21, 2018

New study shows that people suffering from major depressive disorder (MDD) have reduced arginine levels. This produces low nitric oxide levels, which may be an underlying cause of MDD.

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Published June 19, 2018

Researchers wanted to find out what CT scans could tell them about the bone health of the patients getting the scans. To assess bone health using the images on their CT scans, they measured the bone density of the first lumbar vertebra. They found that the greater the bone density on the first lumbar vertebra, the less likely the patient was to have a fracture. Specifically, patients with a low density reading (L1attenuation values ≤90 Hounsfield units) were 37% more likely to have a fracture than those with a higher reading.

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