Shen Li, Ying Gao, Hao Lv, Miaomiao Zhang, Lili Wang, Rui Jiang, Chengai Xu, Xueshi Wang, Ming Gao, Yukun He, Jie Li, Wei-Dong Li
Second-generation antipsychotic agents (SGAs) cause serious metabolic side effects, including weight gain, dyslipidemia, and glucose metabolism abnormalities, which occur by unknown mechanisms. Therefore, the search for prospective markers for antipsychotic-induced weight gain (AIWG) has been of major interest. So far, predictive factors predisposing patients to the develop obesity and related metabolic disturbances induced by SGAs have been relatively less studied among large samples of Chinese schizophrenic patients...
February 2018: Psychoneuroendocrinology