A study published in the Injury Prevention Journal suggests that women who were prescribed a common class of antidepressants (Celexa, Paxil, Prozac and Zoloft) to ease menopausal symptoms may face a long-term rise in their risk for bone fracture. Researchers based their findings on more than 137,000 women who were between the ages of 40 and 64 and began SSRI antidepressants between 1998 and 2010.This group was compared to 236,000 women who had only been prescribed indigestion medications and the results concluded that women in the antidepressants SSRI group faced a 76% higher risk for fractures after a single year of SSRI. Via U.S. News. Posted June 26, 2015.
