None of the most common blood pressure medications increased the risk of depression, some lowered the risk

Monday, August 24, 2020 - 09:10 in Health & Medicine

None of the 41 most common high blood pressure medications increased the risk of depression, while nine medications appeared to lower it, according to a study from Denmark, published today in Hypertension, an American Heart Association journal. Depression is common among patients with high blood pressure (also called hypertension), heart disease and stroke, and this is the first study to systematically investigate whether […]

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