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The claim is circulating that antidepressants can cause overheating and dehydration. This is a genuine public health message, but it's not so simple: diuretics, beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, antipsychotics, and some antihistamines may also interact badly with hot weather.
nytimes.com/2024/06/15/well/li (excerpt in a reply)

There's even doubt about antidepressants having this effect. A recent paper in eClinicalMedicine looked at all the studies they could find and concluded that there wasn't evidence of antidepressants causing overheating in hot weather - though some other medicines do.

"Current evidence supports strong anticholinergics, non-selective beta-blockers, adrenaline, and anti-Parkinson’s agents impairing thermoregulation during heat stress ... physicians should interpret with caution conventional public health messaging related to the thermoregulatory effects of some drugs (e.g., antidepressants) during hot weather."
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/

The New York Times · These Common Medications Can Make Heat Waves More DangerousBy Katie Mogg

Given my earlier work on the reporting of harms researchgate.net/profile/Tom-K I was informed of an upcoming special issue of Trials on assessing #harms in clinical trials, "The collection, analysis and reporting of adverse events in randomised controlled trials"

biomedcentral.com/collections/

These days I focus on @IrishMECFSAssociation but perhaps of interest to somebody. With all the exercise and other #LongCovid trials, it remains important