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01-12-2007 | Correspondence
Atypical Antipsychotic-Induced Diabetes Mellitus in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Authors:
Dan Cohen, Saskia Huinink
Published in:
CNS Drugs
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Issue 12/2007
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Excerpt
In their valuable article on children with schizophrenia published recently in
CNS Drugs, Masi et al.[
1] discuss the literature on the pharmacological treatment of this severely debilitating disorder. The authors rightly observe that disturbance of glucose homeostasis is one of the unwanted side effects of treatment with atypical antipsychotic drugs. We would like to contribute further to the understanding of this problem. …