Sunday, February 20, 2011
Rank order of antipsychotics for producing weight gain
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A review in the Archives of General Psychiatry looks at the evidence for weight gain and changes in other cardiovascular risk factors caused by antipsychotic treatment. It has produced a rank order of the different drugs with olanzapine noted to cause more weight gain than all other second-generation antipsychotics except clozapine. Clozapine causes more weight gain than risperidone, risperidone more than amisulpride, and sertindole more than risperidone. The average weight gain after 6 to 8 weeks taking olanzapine was found to be 5 to 6 kg, which was significantly higher than the average weight gained while taking risperidone (4 kg) or haloperidol (3 kg).
Moving from an outdated physical disease model of mental illness to a more relational mental health practice
3 comments:
How about a rank order of antipsychotics for brain shrinkage?
Depakote - a fast 100-lb gain. Happened to me over months, not years.
as someone who has gone through the experience, I will forever wonder if any of the psychiatrists prescibing me those drugs, ever gave a damn. It was always like either take it or I will shove it down your throat attitude. I thought it was very inhumane.
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