Background Because women are often perceived as having better outcomes than men in
psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia–women are less often in hospital, have a lower …

Abstract Background and Hypothesis People with severe mental illness (SMI) may
experience excess mortality and inequitable treatment following acute coronary syndrome …

Introduction The digitalization of medicine has led to a considerable growth of
heterogeneous health datasets, which could improve healthcare research if integrated into …

Background Corrected QT-interval (QTc) prolongation (QTP) is a rare but fatal adverse effect
of antipsychotics. Clozapine is the only antipsychotic recommended for treatment of resistant …

Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder that exists at the more extreme end of a spectrum of
diseases, and significantly affects daily functioning. Cardiovascular adverse effects of …

Sex-specific aspects can already be integrated in clinical guideline recommendations,
especially with regard to efficacy and tolerability of antipsychotic treatment. Moreover, these …

Objective To study the occurrence of torsades de pointes (TdP) ventricular tachycardia in
relation to use of drugs labelled with TdP risk, using two nationwide Swedish registers …

Cardiovascular diseases are the most prominent cause of death in patients with
schizophrenia. Frontal QRS-T (fQRS-T) angle is a novel marker of myocardial depolarization …

Background: QTc prolongation is one of the possible complications in patients with
schizophrenia taking antipsychotics, which leads to malignant cardiac arrhythmia. No meta …

At least 170 approved drugs are linked to QT prolongation, which can lead to serious
adverse drug reactions (ADRs), such as Torsade de Pointes (TdP). The aim of this study was …