04. QTc Prolongation and Escitalopram: A Safer Antidepressant
Key Points
- Escitalopram may carry some risk of mild QT prolongation, but it’s very unlikely to be clinically significant.
- Escitalopram was not associated with greater mortality in the Tennessee Medicaid cohort study, which suggests that it is unlikely to have significant effects on arrhythmias or cardiac death.
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