Abstract
Weight gain is an important adverse effect of risperidone, but predictors of significant weight gain have yet to be identified in pediatric patients. Here, we investigated differences between age-and gender-normed body mass index-standardized z scores at baseline and after 8 weeks of open-label, flexible-dose risperidone treatment (mean dose: 1.70 mg/day) in 32 youths with pervasive developmental disorder (mean age 8.74, range 5-16 years) in relation to 759C/T 5-hydroxytryptamine 2C receptor (HTR2C) promoter and rs1414334 HTR2C intragenic C/G alleles, along with gender, age, and risperidone dose, using repeated measures analyses of variance. Carriers of the HTR2C promoter T allele gained an average of 0.043 +/- 0.017 body mass index-standardized z scores (1.84 +/- 1.51 kg) versus 0.64 +/- 0.35 z (3.23 +/- 1.47 kg) for non-T-allele carriers (p
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 473-477 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec-2010 |
Keywords
- PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
- BODY-WEIGHT
- LONG-TERM
- THE-759C/T POLYMORPHISM
- C/T POLYMORPHISM
- 5-HT2C
- ADOLESCENTS
- CLOZAPINE
- SCHIZOPHRENIA
- OLANZAPINE