Common antidepressant increased coronary atherosclerosis in animal model - stroke considerations

Your doctor will need to reconcile this with the possible use of anti-depressants for helping recovery.
Can SSRI’s Help Recovery From Stroke? - Anti-depressants.

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-04-common-antidepressant-coronary-atherosclerosis-animal.html
The monkeys that received the SSRI developed three times the amount of atherosclerosis in their coronary arteries as monkeys given the placebo. In the depressed animals, the amount was even higher - almost six times greater in the SSRI-treated animals than in those given the placebo.

"Our findings suggest that long-term treatment with this drug promotes coronary artery atherosclerosis in non-human primates," Shively said. "This may be clinically significant for people because almost a quarter of middle-aged women in the United States take antidepressants, the most prescribed of which are SSRIs."

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