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RE: Common Painkillers Increase the Risk of Heart Attacks

in #health8 years ago

The hypothesis is that it is based on the idea of depression being caused by a chronic inflammatory process. I seem to remember something in relation to paracetamol (acetaminophen) and depression too and obviously the mechanisms would be similar.

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Tylenol is functional at inhibiting cox-2 in the CNS so it makes sense that it may help we're depression and inflammation linked.