Table 7: Medications prescribed to patients with a diagnosis of depression.
| Classification | No. (%) of patients |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men n = 12 748 |
Women n = 28 526 |
Total n = 41 274 |
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| Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors |
8 291 |
(65.0) |
19 756 |
(69.3) |
28 047 |
(68.0) |
| Atypical antipsychotics |
3 067 |
(24.1) |
6 350 |
(22.3) |
9 417 |
(22.8) |
| Serotonin–norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors |
2 478 |
(19.4) |
6 401 |
(22.4) |
8 879 |
(21.5) |
| Tricyclics and tetracyclics |
1 384 |
(10.9) |
4 026 |
(14.1) |
5 410 |
(13.1) |
| Serotonin antagonist and reuptake inhibitors |
1 142 |
(9.0) |
2 988 |
(10.5) |
4 130 |
(10.0) |
| Bipolar medications |
508 |
(4.0) |
976 |
(3.4) |
1 484 |
(3.6) |
| Monoamine oxidase inhibitors |
43 |
(0.3) |
71 |
(0.3) |
114 |
(0.3) |
| No depression medication | 2 222 | (17.4) | 4 083 | (14.3) | 6 305 | (15.3) |