There is an increasing recognition of the impact of weight gain on the development of metabolic abnormalities in young people receiving atypical antipsychotic drugs for first-episode psychosis. This study examined the prevalence of such abnormalities in a specialist early-intervention community mental health team.
Early Psychosis Programme, Bondi Centre, South Eastern Sydney Local Health Network, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. jackie.curtis@sesiahs.health.nsw.gov.au
