Response to ‘Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and hyponatraemia in the elderly’ by Wee and Lim (2004)
✍ Scribed by Associate Professor David Ames
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 25 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
- DOI
- 10.1002/gps.1206
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✦ Synopsis
Dear Editor
In their research letter 'Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and hyponatraemia in the elderly', Wee and Lim (2004) are quite wrong to state in regard to hyponatraemia and SSRIs that 'no studies are available in geriatric populations'. Such a study was published in this journal in March 2002(Kirby et al., 2002).
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