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Letter to the Editor

Relative Weight Gain Among Antipsychotics

Prakash S. Masand

Published: October 31, 1999

Article Abstract

Letter to the Editor

Sir: In his October 1998 BRAINSTORMS on weight gain associated with psychotropic drugs, Dr. Stahl grouped risperidone together with clozapine and olanzapine as causing minimal short-term weight gain and moderate long-term weight gain. This is misleading.


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