Background: Public health advisories have warned that the use of atypical antipsychotic medications increases the risk of death among elderly patients. We assessed the short-term mortality in a ...

0.4 pounds in the untreated comparison group. Overall, 10 per cent to 36 per cent of the subjects became overweight or obese within 11 weeks of starting antipsychotic drug treatment.

People with Alzheimer's who are prescribed some antipsychotic drugs for agitation and delusions receive few benefits and many stop taking the medication because of the side-effects, a long-term ...