Developing a metformin prescribing tool for use in adults with mental illness to reduce medication-related weight gain and cardiovascular risk.

CONCLUSIONS: A novel, easy-to-use, one-page reference has been developed for busy clinicians that can be laminated and displayed in consulting rooms and psychiatric inpatient units to address weight gain and obesity associated with antipsychotic medications in people with mental illness. PMID: 28747113 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28747113?dopt=Abstract

Source: Australasian Psychiatry - July 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Smith C, Myles H, Galletly C Tags: Australas Psychiatry Source Type: research