A study, financed by federal grants and published in The Journal of the American Medical Association on Wednesday, October 28, 2009, found that 257 young children and adolescents on Long Island and in New York City gained an additional 10 to 15 percent of their weight after taking antipsychotic medications for less than 12 weeks. This is the largest study to date on the childhood use of such drugs.An editorial in the same issue of the journal, written by two child psychologists, said that weight gain in these patients does not bode well for their long-term health. Diabetes, hypertension and other diseases could be the result of the rapid weight gain.
The lead researcher of the study was Dr. Christoph U. Correll of the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset and Zucker Hillside Hospital in Queens.
The patients from LI and NYC ranged in age from 4 to 19. They gained one to one-and-a-half pounds per week on average after taking the medications. The four drugs in the study are Zyprexa, Abilify, Risperdal and Seroquel.
What do you think? Are there benefits for those with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other mental disorders if they take these drugs? Or do the side effects pointed out in this study outweigh the benefits?
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Eli Lilly sells a drug {ZYPREXA} that can cause diabetes and then turn a profit on the drugs that treat the condition that they may have caused in the first place!
Eli Lilly has made $38 billion on Zyprexa and it was way oversold and caused diabetes and in some cases sudden death.
Eli Lilly has received a huge criminal fine over their Zyprexa cash cow,add it all up comes to $4.6 billion, in Zyprexa settlements,fines,litigation.
Did you know that Lilly made $ billions last year on diabetic meds, Actos,Humulin and Byetta?
Yes! They sell a drug that can cause diabetes and then turn a profit on the drugs that treat the condition that they may have caused in the first place!
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Daniel Haszard zyprexa-victims.com
There have never been any long term studies on the effects of these drugs on children. We subject children to things we as adults would never tolerate.
I guess I’d have to say I’m not surprised. It fits our cultural profile.