Healio (6/23, Marabito) reports, “Patients with antipsychotic-naïve and first-episode schizophrenia who received antipsychotic treatment experienced” an average of 2.89 kg in weight gain “and improvement of clinical symptoms following 8 weeks of treatment,” researchers concluded in a study in “441 patients with schizophrenia and 313 control patients” published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. The “researchers observed a significant association between weight gain, age at onset, the course of disease and education.”
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— “Weight gain correlates with greater symptom improvements for antipsychotic treatment “Maria Marabito, Healio, June 23, 2021