Antidepressants may lead to early menopause: study

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Antidepressants may lead to early menopause: study

By ANDRé PICARD

 

Montreal -- Women who take antidepressants are far more likely to enter

menopause early, a new study says.

 

Depression itself may bring about perimenopause prematurely, says Bernard

Harlow of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and lead author of the

research in the latest Archives of General Psychiatry. He found that women

who took antidepressants were three times as likely to enter perimenopause

as those who did not.