Study: Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Reduce Antidepressant Efficacy

In the absence of anti-inflammatory drugs, 54% of patients responded to the antidepressant, whereas only 40% of patients responded in the presence of anti-inflammatory agents.

A study by scientists at Rockefeller University in the US has confirmed that anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen, aspirin and naproxen reduce the ability of antidepressant medications.

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, one class of compound used as antidepressants, are often given for depression as well as obsessive-compulsive and anxiety disorders.

Researchers found that in the absence of anti-inflammatory drugs, 54% of patients responded to the antidepressant, whereas only 40% of patients responded in the presence of anti-inflammatory agents.

Rockefeller Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Disease Research director Greengard said elderly individual