Mapping drug-class associations with sudden cardiac arrest in the outpatient setting: an exploratory population-based case-control analysis
Numerous outpatient-prescribed drug classes were associated with SCA. This exploratory, population-based analysis provides a systematic map of potential safety signals to inform more detailed pharmaco-epidemiological investigations, in which confounding and causality can be examined more rigorously.
Authors
- Michael Hölzer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5520-5116)
- Magdalena Sophie Boegl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4399-1372)
- Safoura Sheikh Rezaei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1310-3151)
- Harald Herkner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1329-6149)
- Daniel Kogler
- Mario Krammel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2023-6718)
- Martina Mittlböck
- Alexandra Julia Lipa
- Thomas Bergmair
- Nina Buchtele
- Anne Elisabeth Merrelaar
- Michael Schwameis
Institutions
- Statistics Austria (AT)
- Verband der Privaten Krankenversicherung (DE)
- Universitätsklinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe (AT)
- Health Awareness (United States) (US)
- Universitätszahnklinik Wien (AT)
- Medical University of Vienna (AT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMJ evidence-based medicine
- Published
- 2026-01-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2025-113993
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Universität Wien
- Medizinische Universität Wien