{"id":137588,"date":"2025-10-22T05:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137588\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T05:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T05:08:11","slug":"major-review-of-antidepressant-side-effects-shows-extent-of-impact-on-patients-weight-and-heart-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/137588\/","title":{"rendered":"Major review of antidepressant side-effects shows extent of impact on patients\u2019 weight and heart rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Results should help doctors personalise patient\u2019s choice of therapy\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Doctors have urged patients not to panic and to keep taking their medications and speak to their own doctors if worried. Stock image: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/74245be8-9771-4b3d-8316-08cf44aef6ab.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Doctors have urged patients not to panic and to keep taking their medications and speak to their own doctors if worried. Stock image: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A major review showing how different antidepressants can vary widely in how they physically affect the body, including increasing weight and heart rate, will allow doctors in Ireland to better tailor their prescriptions based on patients\u2019 risk factors, Irish psychiatrists have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In a review, published today in the Lancet, found that some of these medicines are linked to weight gain in nearly half of patients while others are associated with weight loss in over 50pc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Results should help doctors personalise patient\u2019s choice of therapy Doctors have urged patients not to panic and to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[2271,18,135,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-137588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-eilish-oregan","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}