Do antipsychotic drugs place mentally-ill patients at increased risk for diabetes mellitus?
The jury is still out on this issue. published: Wednesday | June 23, 2004 By Eulalee Thompson, Staff Reporter THE NEWS is not good for patients with major mental illnesses statistics indicate that they suffer a higher incidence of chronic diseases and tend to die earlier than other persons in the general population. Dr. Gillian Lowe, child and adolescent psychiatrist, said that this is a concern among psychiatrists. “(They) die on average 10 to 20 years earlier than persons in the general population. This is due in part to suicides but also due to cardiovascular diseases such as coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes in particular, and also obesity, some forms of cancer, respiratory illness and substance abuse,” she said. One of the chronic diseases, diabetes mellitus, in recent years, is becoming increasingly more prevalent among persons suffering major mental illness. Type 2 diabetes is common in nine to 14 per cent of patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and in about
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