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Pharmacological interventions for prevention of weight gain in people with schizophrenia

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Antipsychotic-induced weight gain is an extremely common problem in people with schizophrenia and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Adjunctive pharmacological interventions may be necessary to help manage antipsychotic-induced weight gain. This review splits and updates a previous Cochrane Review that focused on both pharmacological and behavioural approaches to this problem. OBJECTIVES: To determine the …

Authors

Agarwal SM; Stogios N; Ahsan ZA; Lockwood JT; Duncan MJ; Takeuchi H; Cohn T; Taylor VH; Remington G; Faulkner GEJ

Journal

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Vol. 2023, No. 10,

Publisher

Wiley

DOI

10.1002/14651858.cd013337.pub2

ISSN

1361-6137