Depression risk associated with the use of 5α-reductase inhibitors versus α-blockers: A retrospective cohort study in South Korea

• Bora Yeon ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ BY and AHS as equally contributing first authors.

  Affiliation Department of Drug Safety Information, Korea Institute of Drug Safety and Risk Management, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8734-6714

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• Ah Young Suh ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ BY and AHS as equally contributing first authors.

  Affiliation Department of Drug Safety Information, Korea Institute of Drug Safety and Risk Management, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

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• Eunmi Choi,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Drug Safety Information, Korea Institute of Drug Safety and Risk Management, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

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• Bonggi Kim ,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bgkim@drugsafe.or.kr (BK); soonyoungh@drugsafe.or.kr (SYH)

  Affiliation Department of Drug Safety Information, Korea Institute of Drug Safety and Risk Management, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0965-1323

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• Eunsun Noh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Relief of Adverse Drug Reaction, Korea Institute of Drug Safety and Risk Management, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

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• Soo Youn Chung,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Drug Safety Information, Korea Institute of Drug Safety and Risk Management, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

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• Soon Young Han

  Roles Project administration, Supervision

  * E-mail: bgkim@drugsafe.or.kr (BK); soonyoungh@drugsafe.or.kr (SYH)

  Affiliation Department of Drug Safety Information, Korea Institute of Drug Safety and Risk Management, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

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