Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Atypical antipsychotic agents are useful in treating patients with schizophrenia and other psychoses, but may cause hyperglycaemia. Hyperglycaemia is not dose dependent and is reversible on stopping the treatment.Occurrence of diabetes after atypical antipsychotic drug administration is of major concern as patients may not recognise their symptoms, and health workers may fail to reach an early diagnosis, with major implications for morbidity ...