Newer Antipsychotic Drugs Double Heart Risk, Just Like Older Meds
A study comparing the drugs finds: Patients taking the newer group of drugs, called atypicals, are twice as likely to suffer sudden cardiac failure and death as nonusers. They’re just as likely to suffer those problems as if they were taking the older antipsychotics. The risk of death wasn’t high, though, at 3% for a patient treated for 10 years, as the New York Times explains it.