Rate of new-onset diabetes among patients treated with atypical or conventional antipsychotic medications for schizophrenia.
Year: 2004
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: CONTEXT: Understanding the association between use of antipsychotics and onset of diabetes. OBJECTIVE: To compare the rates of new-onset diabetes mellitus (DM) between patients treated for schizophrenia with atypical or conventional antipsychotics. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of medical and pharmacy claims data. SETTING: 61 US health plans. PATIENTS: Patients with schizophrenia who were treated with atypical or conventional antipsychotics between September 1996 and June 2001 and were enrolled for 12 or more months before and 3 or more months after therapy initiation. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: New-onset DM was defined based on 2 or more claims with a diabetes diagnosis or initiation of antidiabetic therapy during follow-up. Rates of DM were compared between patients receiving atypical and conventional antipsychotics, and among 4 subgroups of patients receiving atypical antipsychotics (olanzapine, clozapine, risperidone, quetiapine). Statistical analyses employed logistic regression and Cox proportional hazards models. RESULTS: Patients treated with atypical antipsychotics (N = 1826) were younger, had a lower rate of diagnosed hypertension, and longer duration of therapy than those receiving conventional antipsychotics (N = 617). The crude incidence of DM did not differ (2.46% vs 2.76% for atypical antipsychotics and conventional antipsychotics, P =.525). In Cox proportional hazards models, patients treated with atypical antipsychotics had a statistically significant, moderately increased risk of DM relative to conventional antipsychotics (hazard ratio [HR] = 1.17, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.06, 1.30); no significant differences in risk were observed when atypical antipsychotic cohorts were compared. In logistic regression models, no significant differences in DM risk were observed. CONCLUSIONS: Patients with schizophrenia treated with atypical antipsychotics had a moderately increased risk of DM relative to those treated with conventional antipsychotics, as measured by Cox proportional hazards models; such risk was not significantly different among patients treated with individual atypical medications.
Source: PubMed
Language: English
Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2119926858