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Patients on Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs
Patients with schizophrenia are more likely than the general population to develop diabetes, which contributes to a high risk of cardiovascular complications; individuals with schizophrenia are two to three times more likely to die from cardiovascular disease than the general population. The risk of diabetes, and hence cardiovascular disease, is particularly increased by some of the new atypica...
متن کاملUpdate on typical and atypical antipsychotic drugs.
Antipsychotic drugs (APDs) are best classified as typical or atypical. The distinction is based solely on their ability to cause extrapyramidal side effects (EPS), including tardive dyskinesia (TD). The two classes differ in mechanism of action, with atypical APDs providing important modulation of serotonergic neurotransmission. TD increases the death rate and can be minimized by limiting use o...
متن کاملCognition, schizophrenia, and the atypical antipsychotic drugs.
The Cognitive Deficit in Schizophrenia Schizophrenia was originally called dementia praecox by Emil Kraepelin, the great 19th century psychiatric nosologist, who coined the term to categorize a group of young psychotic patients who went on to develop dementia. A decade later, Eugen Bleuler, noting that most patients who had similar psychotic and affective features did not become severely dement...
متن کاملNeuroleptic malignant syndrome and atypical antipsychotic drugs.
OBJECTIVE The incidence of neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is not known, but the frequency of its occurrence with conventional antipsychotic agents has been reported to vary from 0.02% to 2.44%. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE search conducted in January 2003 and review of references within the retrieved articles. DATA SYNTHESIS Our MEDLINE research yielded 68 cases (21 females and 47 males) of N...
متن کاملMechanism of Action of Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs
The designation of chlorpromazine, and subsequently haloperidol, thioridazine, loxapine, thiothixene, molindone, pimozide, and related compounds as antipsychotic drugs (1) reflects their predominant action in humans, namely the suppression of auditory hallucinations and delusions, in some, but not all, individuals with diagnoses of schizophrenia as well as other psychoses. These drugs are also ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Practical Diabetes International
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1357-8170,1528-252X
DOI: 10.1002/pdi.552