Table 4.

—Proportion of In-Hospital Death for Specific Drugs as Compared With Those in the Control Population

Drug	Population on Medication	Hospital Mortality Rate in Positives, %	Dissociation Constant for Serotonin Transportera
Citalopram	622	9	1.16
Escitalopram	203	5	Unknownb
Fluoxetine	388	10	0.81
Sertraline	555	14	0.29
Paroxetine	406	12	0.13

The hospital mortality rate in the control group is 10%.

^aLower dissociation constant denotes a higher degree of serotonin reuptake inhibition. From Tatsumi et al.¹⁴

^bEscitalopram is the active s-enantiomer of citalopram and is, thus, presumed to have a similar dissociation constant.