An adverse glycemic effect in patients as a result of treatment with neuroleptics
Tverdova, E.B.
Zhurnal Nevropatologii i Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova 76(3): 450-452
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0044-4588 PMID: 1266523 Document Number: 108051
A study of reasons leading to complications in a combined treatment by insulin and neuroleptocal drugs of schizophrenic patients demonstrated that neuroleptical preparations have certain properties acting in some case on a drop of sugar in the blood. It was depicted as well that neuroleptical drugs have a latent side-effect and affect the sugar metabolism. In a long-term use of these preparations the sugar curves correspond to a latent and clinically expressed diabetes. Cases of diabetes among the mental patients are as a rule a result of a long-term action of neuroleptical drugs.