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Posted by SalArmy4me on July 16, 2001, at 2:39:07
From Dr. Preskorn, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Kansas School of Medicine - Wichita.
http://www.preskorn.com/cgi-bin/sp.pl?words=clomipramine&wt=be&bl=an&d=/books/omd_s7.htmlLong-Term Safety
"Antidepressants are among the most widely prescribed medications and are often taken on a long-term basis to prevent the recurrence of major depressive episodes. There is no evidence of serious long-term safety problems with any antidepressant, based on spontaneous reports to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The long-term safety of antidepressants has also been systemically evaluated during clinical trial development programs.103,169,178 The most rigorous data in this regard come from year-long, placebo-controlled relapse prevention studies.62,67,112,148
Other data come from open-label extension studies. In these studies, patients who have completed double-blind acute treatment studies can elect to continue on the medication until it is approved by the FDA. Given these two types of approaches, the safety of the drug will have typically been assessed in several hundred patients for up to 1 year by the time it is available in the United States."
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