Antipsychotic drugs and diabetes: an application of the Austin Bradford Hill criteria
Holt, R.I.G. and Peveler, R.C. (2006) Antipsychotic drugs and diabetes: an application of the Austin Bradford Hill criteria. Diabetologia, 49, (7), 1467-1476. (doi:10.1007/s00125-006-0279-3).
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There is concern that antipsychotic drugs cause diabetes. Although there has been an explosion in the quantity of literature about this subject, it remains confusing and inconsistent. To assess whether the association between antipsychotic drugs and diabetes is causative, we applied the Austin Bradford Hill criteria to the available evidence. In support of a causative relationship, there is temporality for some cases of diabetes, and there is a biologically plausible explanation. The causative link between antipsychotic drugs and diabetes is coherent with our understanding of diabetes and there are other analogies. However the strength of association is weak, there is lack of consistency or specificity, and there is little evidence to support a biological gradient. We should therefore conclude that the evidence surrounding a causative link between antipsychotic drugs and diabetes is inconclusive. Moreover, the risk is probably low and the attributable risk of developing diabetes is greater for traditional risk factors such as family history, ethnicity, obesity and ageing than it is for receiving an antipsychotic drug. Consequently, the majority of patients receiving second-generation antipsychotics will not develop diabetes as a result of their medication.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0012-186X (print) |
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| Keywords: | diabetes, disease, endocrinology, health, history, metabolism, obesity, risk, risk factors |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RB Pathology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Medicine > Developmental Origins of Health and Disease |
| Item ID: | 44204 |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Feb 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 02:26 |
| Contributors: | Holt, R.I.G. (Author) Peveler, R.C. (Author) |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | R.I.G.Holt@soton.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/44204 |
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