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Promising but preliminary

Transdiagnostic medication-associated weight gain across five effectiveness trials: a harmonized longitudinal cohort analysis of antipsychotics, antidepressants, and mood stabilizers.

Antidepressants and mood stabilizers cause less weight gain than antipsychotics, giving psychiatrists more options for lighter-weight medications.

BACKGROUND: Psychotropic-associated weight gain contributes to non-adherence and cardiometabolic morbidity, but antipsychotics, antidepressants, and mood stabilizers are rarely compared in a common longitudinal framework... This cumulative difference partly reflects the longer follow-up and more frequent weight measurement in the antipsychotic trials: early weight-gain slopes did not differ significantly between antipsychotics and antidepre...

What the study was

Study design
Cohort study
Population
patients
Sample size
4945
Category
Prevention
Maturity
Exploratory
Journal
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry

Why it surfaced

Score 6/10 [PROMISING_PRELIMINARY]: Cohort study (Journal Article) matched 'Cardiovascular-metabolic: GLP-1, SGLT2, '. Components — novelty:1/3, relevance:2/3, design:1/2, population:2/2. Confidence: high. Conservative scoring applied per v1.3 rubric.

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