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Jeg har tidligere omtalt den mildt sagt selektive rapporteringen av studier på virkningen til SSRI. Nå er dataene fra de manglende studiene inkludert i en Ny meta-analyse. Resultatet skaper nok liten jubel fra industrihold: Methods and Findings We obtained data on all clinical trials submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the […]

Jeg har tidligere omtalt den mildt sagt selektive rapporteringen av studier på virkningen til SSRI. Nå er dataene fra de manglende studiene inkludert i en Ny meta-analyse.

Resultatet skaper nok liten jubel fra industrihold:

Methods and Findings

We obtained data on all clinical trials submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the licensing of the four new-generation antidepressants for which full datasets were available. We then used meta-analytic techniques to assess linear and quadratic effects of initial severity on improvement scores for drug and placebo groups and on drug-placebo difference scores. Drug-placebo differences increased as a function of initial severity, rising from virtually no difference at moderate levels of initial depression to a relatively small difference for patients with very severe depression, reaching conventional criteria for clinical significance only for patients at the upper end of the very severely depressed category. Meta-regression analyses indicated that the relation of baseline severity and improvement was curvilinear in drug groups and showed a strong, negative linear component in placebo groups.

Conclusions

Drug-placebo differences in antidepressant efficacy increase as a function of baseline severity, but are relatively small even for severely depressed patients. The relationship between initial severity and antidepressant efficacy is attributable to decreased responsiveness to placebo among very severely depressed patients, rather than to increased responsiveness to medication.

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(Via Dagbladet.)