Antipsychotic Agents, Weight Gain, and Diabetes

Volume 02, Issue 19
August 2011

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Antipsychotic Agents, Weight Gain, and Diabetes

Interview with:

Richard Holt, PhD, Professor of Diabetes and Endocrinology, University of Southampton School of Medicine, Southampton, United Kingdom

Mental illness and diabetes

The connection between mental illness and diabetes was made as long ago as the late 1800s, when observations about the co-occurrence of diabetes and “insanity” within families were recorded, suggesting a genetic relationship....