Antidepressant efficacy of sertraline and imipramine for the treatment of major depression in elderly outpatients

CONTEXT: Most double-blind studies of efficacy and tolerability of sertraline as compared to tricyclics in the treatment of late-life major depression have used amitriptyline as a standard, leading to the inevitable conclusion that the former drug is better tolerated than the latter, with both being...

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Main Authors: Orestes Vicente Forlenza, Alberto Stoppe Júnior, Edson Shiguemi Hirata, Rita Cecília Reis Ferreira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Paulista de Medicina 2000-07-01
Series:São Paulo Medical Journal
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802000000400005&lng=en&tlng=en