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Changes in glucose and cholesterol levels in patients with schizophrenia treated with typical or atypical antipsychotics.

Schizophrenia Update, October 2003

(American Journal of Psychiatry)

02/25/2003

Glucose and cholesterol levels increase when schizophrenia patients are treated with most of today's anti-psychotic drugs. Clozapine, olanzapine and haloperidol are associated with increased plasma glucose level, and clozapine and olanzapine with raised cholesterol, report researchers in Orangeburg, New York.

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