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Database effect: Antipsychotics and antidepressants and diabetes risk
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent psychopharmacology update
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7567
pISSN - 1527-8395
DOI - 10.1002/cpu.30248
Subject(s) - psychiatry , medical prescription , antipsychotic , citation , child and adolescent psychiatry , quetiapine , aggression , psychopharmacology , medicine , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychology , computer science , library science , pharmacology
The increase in the use of antipsychotics for young people is driven partly by regulatory broadening, but mostly by increased off‐label prescribing, according to an editorial in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry . In particular, aggression is the main reason for the prescription of antipsychotics. Consequently, antipsychotic‐related side effects — in particular, weight gain and type 2 diabetes, raise concerns. Youth more than adults are particularly vulnerable to these adverse effects.

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