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ea0037ep575 | Obesity and cardiovascular endocrinology | ECE2015

Can obese patients on antipsychotic medications achieve weight loss in an unmodified general population lifestyle-intervention weight management programme?

Mat Arimin , Ahern Tomas , Breen Cathy , Dunlevy Colin , O'Shea Donal

Background: Many antipsychotics are obesogenic and contribute to significant weight gain with serious implications on patientsÂ’ physical and mental well-being. However, patients on antipsychotics are often excluded from unmodified lifestyle-intervention weight management programmes and trials.Objectives: To determine if weight loss is possible for antipsychotic-medicated obese patients when enrolled in an unmodified lifestyle-intervention weight man...