Antidepressants and the Risk of Dementia: Appropriate Consideration of Confounding by Indication

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Community Mental Health, University of Haifa (AK, AR, SZL), Haifa, Israel; Meuhedet Health Services, Mental Health (AK), Tel Aviv, Israel.
• ² Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet (SS, NP, ME, IK), Stockholm, Sweden; The Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (SS, AR), New York, NY; Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (SS, AR), New York, NY.
• ³ The Seaver Autism Center for Research and Treatment, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (SS, AR), New York, NY; Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (SS, AR), New York, NY.
• ⁴ Department of Community Mental Health, University of Haifa (AK, AR, SZL), Haifa, Israel.
• ⁵ Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet (SS, NP, ME, IK), Stockholm, Sweden.
• ⁶ Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet (SS, NP, ME, IK), Stockholm, Sweden; Institute of Gerontology and Aging Research Network - Jönköping (ARN-J), School of Health and Welfare, Jönköping University (IK), Jönköping, Sweden.
• ⁷ Sackler Medical School, Tel Aviv University (MD), Tel Aviv, Israel; Nicosia Medical School (MD), Nicosia, Cyprus.
• ⁸ Department of Community Mental Health, University of Haifa (AK, AR, SZL), Haifa, Israel. Electronic address: slevine@univ.haifa.ac.il.