Antidepressant effects on physical health are ranked for the first time.

For the first time, the side effects of various antidepressants have been ranked, exposing significant variations among medications. Researchers examined the effects of drugs on patients during the first eight weeks of treatment, finding that some caused weight gain of up to 2 kg or heart rate variations of up to 21 beats per minute. In the UK, about eight million people use antidepressants. The disparity in side effects, according to researchers, may have an impact on people's health and ability to follow their prescription.

They have called for antidepressants to be closely tailored to each individual's needs, but they did not advise anyone reading this to stop their treatment. According to researcher Prof. Oliver Howes, "there are big differences between [antidepressants] and this is important not just for individual patients but also because many people are taking them, so even modest changes could have a big effect across the whole

 population." Antidepressants have long been known to have an impact on physical health. The King's College London and University of Oxford study is the first to create a ranking that makes it simple to compare the effects of medications. The group examined 151 studies with over 58,500 patients that included 30 medications frequently used to treat depression. Although not everyone experiences adverse effects, generally speaking, the