Psychiatric News (11/16) reports, “Individuals who take antipsychotics that increase the hormone prolactin for four years or more are at heightened risk of low-energy fractures (fractures resulting from falls from standing height or lower),” researchers concluded in a study that “used Finnish national birth registries to look at the use of prolactin-increasing and prolactin-sparing antipsychotics among 4,960 people with schizophrenia who experienced a low-energy fracture and 24,451 people with schizophrenia who did not experience a low-energy fracture, matched for age, sex, and duration of illness.” The findings were published online Nov. 5 in the Schizophrenia Bulletin.
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— “Long-Term Use of Some Antipsychotics Increases Risk of Fractures, Study Shows, Psychiatric News, November 16, 2022