{"title":"Letter to the Editor Concerning \"Glucagon-Like Peptide Agonists for Weight Management in Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis\".","authors":"Anders Fink-Jensen, Christoph U Correll","doi":"10.1111/acps.13772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.13772","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":108,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142612924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tessa F Blanken, Rob Kok, Jasmien Obbels, Simon Lambrichts, Pascal Sienaert, Esmée Verwijk
Objective: While electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for the treatment of major depressive disorder is effective, individual response is variable and difficult to predict. These difficulties may in part result from heterogeneity at the symptom level. We aim to predict remission using baseline depression symptoms, taking the associations among symptoms into account, by using a network analysis approach.
Method: We combined individual patient data from two randomized controlled trials (total N = 161) and estimated a Mixed Graphical Model to estimate which baseline depression symptoms (corresponding to HRSD-17 items) uniquely predicted remission (defined as either HRSD≤7 or MADRS<10). We included study as moderator to evaluate study heterogeneity. For symptoms directly predictive of remission we computed odds ratios.
Results: Three baseline symptoms were uniquely predictive of remission: suicidality negatively predicted remission (OR = 0.75; bootstrapped confidence interval (bCI) = 0.44-1.00) whereas retardation (OR = 1.21; bCI = 1.00-2.02) and hypochondriasis (OR = 1.31; bCI = 1.00-2.25) positively predicted remission. The estimated effects did not differ across trials as no moderation effects were found.
Conclusion: By using a network analysis approach this study identified that the presence of suicidal ideation predicts an overall worse treatment outcome. Psychomotor retardation and hypochondriasis, on the other hand, seem to be associated with a better outcome.
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<p>Patients with mental disorders have a significantly reduced lifespan,<span><sup>1</sup></span> with overweight/obesity and cardiometabolic-related death being the biggest contributors. Both the underlying mental illness and treatments, especially antipsychotics, contribute to this increased cardiometabolic risk, creating a dilemma between efficacy and desired safety. As a point in fact, clozapine is a second-generation antipsychotic with proven antipsychotic efficacy in otherwise treatment-resistant patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. However, clozapine is also linked to a substantial increase in body weight and carries a high risk for metabolic disturbances,<span><sup>2</sup></span> making clinicians, patients, and caretakers reluctant against its use. Additionally, sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy food intake have become a public health issue for populations in the Western world in general. However, they are an even bigger problem among people with severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Also, the use of antipsychotics has expanded beyond schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, being used frequently on-label for unipolar depression, but also off-label for impulsive behaviors, insomnia, and anxiety among other conditions.<span><sup>3</sup></span></p><p>Over the last decade, more focus has been paid to monitoring body weight and uncovering potential dysmetabolism by blood sample analysis in people treated with antipsychotics, which are important steps in the right direction. However, clear, and well-established strategies for an effective treatment against overweight/obesity and dysmetabolism in people with mental illness and, especially, those receiving antipsychotics or being mentally ill, remain underdeveloped or, at least, underutilized.<span><sup>4</sup></span></p><p>The most effective strategy for preventing antipsychotic-induced weight gain and dysmetabolism is using these medications only when needed or starting with the antipsychotic with the lowest weight gain potential.<span><sup>4</sup></span> When weight gain and metabolic adverse effects occur, secondary preventive efforts include switching to an antipsychotic linked to less weight gain and dysmetabolism, although the desired weight loss may be limited.<span><sup>5</sup></span> Moreover, in the case of clozapine, which is used in otherwise partial or complete treatment-resistant patients, switching to a less effective antipsychotic, even if it may impose fewer dysmetabolic problems and less increase in body weight, may not be an applicable strategy.<span><sup>6</sup></span> Nonpharmacological interventions such as lifestyle changes against overweight and dysmetabolism are well-known strategies<span><sup>7</sup></span> but-as for the background population-are difficult to implement broadly.</p><p>Traditionally, the adjunctive pharmacological interventions against antipsychotic-associated weight gain have included topiramate and metformin. However,
{"title":"How to treat antipsychotic-related weight gain and metabolic disturbances: Is there a role for GLP-1 receptor agonists?","authors":"Anders Fink-Jensen, Christoph U. Correll","doi":"10.1111/acps.13769","DOIUrl":"10.1111/acps.13769","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Patients with mental disorders have a significantly reduced lifespan,<span><sup>1</sup></span> with overweight/obesity and cardiometabolic-related death being the biggest contributors. Both the underlying mental illness and treatments, especially antipsychotics, contribute to this increased cardiometabolic risk, creating a dilemma between efficacy and desired safety. As a point in fact, clozapine is a second-generation antipsychotic with proven antipsychotic efficacy in otherwise treatment-resistant patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. However, clozapine is also linked to a substantial increase in body weight and carries a high risk for metabolic disturbances,<span><sup>2</sup></span> making clinicians, patients, and caretakers reluctant against its use. Additionally, sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy food intake have become a public health issue for populations in the Western world in general. However, they are an even bigger problem among people with severe mental disorders, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Also, the use of antipsychotics has expanded beyond schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, being used frequently on-label for unipolar depression, but also off-label for impulsive behaviors, insomnia, and anxiety among other conditions.<span><sup>3</sup></span></p><p>Over the last decade, more focus has been paid to monitoring body weight and uncovering potential dysmetabolism by blood sample analysis in people treated with antipsychotics, which are important steps in the right direction. However, clear, and well-established strategies for an effective treatment against overweight/obesity and dysmetabolism in people with mental illness and, especially, those receiving antipsychotics or being mentally ill, remain underdeveloped or, at least, underutilized.<span><sup>4</sup></span></p><p>The most effective strategy for preventing antipsychotic-induced weight gain and dysmetabolism is using these medications only when needed or starting with the antipsychotic with the lowest weight gain potential.<span><sup>4</sup></span> When weight gain and metabolic adverse effects occur, secondary preventive efforts include switching to an antipsychotic linked to less weight gain and dysmetabolism, although the desired weight loss may be limited.<span><sup>5</sup></span> Moreover, in the case of clozapine, which is used in otherwise partial or complete treatment-resistant patients, switching to a less effective antipsychotic, even if it may impose fewer dysmetabolic problems and less increase in body weight, may not be an applicable strategy.<span><sup>6</sup></span> Nonpharmacological interventions such as lifestyle changes against overweight and dysmetabolism are well-known strategies<span><sup>7</sup></span> but-as for the background population-are difficult to implement broadly.</p><p>Traditionally, the adjunctive pharmacological interventions against antipsychotic-associated weight gain have included topiramate and metformin. However,","PeriodicalId":108,"journal":{"name":"Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica","volume":"151 1","pages":"3-5"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/acps.13769","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142602461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Giuseppe D'Andrea, Diego Quattrone, Giada Tripoli, Edoardo Spinazzola, Charlotte Gayer-Anderson, Hannah E Jongsma, Lucia Sideli, Simona A Stilo, Caterina La Cascia, Laura Ferraro, Daniele La Barbera, Andrea Tortelli, Eva Velthorst, Lieuwe de Haan, Pierre-Michel Llorca, Jose Luis Santos, Manuel Arrojo, Julio Bobes, Julio Sanjuán, Miguel Bernardo, Celso Arango, James B Kirkbride, Peter B Jones, Bart P Rutten, Franck Schürhoff, Andrei Szöke, Jim van Os, Evangelos Vassos, Jean-Paul Selten, Craig Morgan, Marta Di Forti, Ilaria Tarricone, Robin M Murray
Background: Urbanicity is a well-established risk factor for psychosis. Our recent multi-national study found an association between urbanicity and clinical psychosis in Northern Europe but not in Southern Europe. In this study, we hypothesized that the effect of current urbanicity on variation of schizotypy would be greater in North-western Europe countries than in Southern Europe ones.
Methods: We recruited 1080 individuals representative of the populations aged 18-64 of 14 different sites within 5 countries, classified as either North-western Europe (England, France, and The Netherlands) with Southern Europe (Spain and Italy). Our main outcome was schizotypy, assessed through the Structured Interview for Schizotypy-Revised. Our main exposure was current urbanicity, operationalized as local population density. A priori confounders were age, sex, ethnic minority status, childhood maltreatment, and social capital. Schizotypy variation was assessed using multi-level regression analysis. To test the differential effect of urbanicity between North-western and Southern European, we added an interaction term between population density and region of recruitment.
Results: Population density was associated with schizotypy (β = 0.248,95%CI = 0.122-0.375;p < 0.001). The addition of the interaction term improved the model fit (likelihood test ratio:χ2 = 6.85; p = 0.009). The effect of urbanicity on schizotypy was substantially stronger in North-western Europe (β = 0.620,95%CI = 0.362-0.877;p < 0.001) compared with Southern Europe (β = 0.190,95%CI = 0.083-0.297;p = 0.001).
Conclusions: The association between urbanicity and both subclinical schizotypy and clinical psychosis, rather than being universal, is context-specific. Considering that urbanization is a rapid and global process, further research is needed to disentangle the specific factors underlying this relationship.
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