Medical News: Risk of Sudden Death No Less Likely with Atypical Antipsychotics – in Psychiatry, Schizophrenia from MedPage Today

Here is another report on the same Vanderbilt University study on antipsychotics originally reported on in the NEJM.  The lesson from this comparison is obvious.  Be cognizant of differences in reporting quality and possible underlying biases.  The NYT article didn’t go deep enough.  The sudden cardiac death risk from newer antipsychotics is about the same as the sudden death risk from older antipsychotics.

Same study, different perspectives.  I’ll leave it to the reader to determine which is the better report.