%0 Journal Article
%T Relationships between sleep patterns and metabolic profile in patients maintained on antipsychotics: a cross-sectional comparative study
%A Arij Yehya
%A Dennis Mook-Kanamori
%A Hassen Al-Amin
%A Iman Amro
%A Nancy Kiwan
%A Rifka Chamali
%A Samer Hammoudeh
%A Suhaila Ghuloum
%A Yahya Hani
%A Ziyad Mahfoud
%J Archive of "Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment".
%D 2019
%R 10.2147/NDT.S207987
%X Disturbances in sleep duration and quality have been associated with obesity and other metabolic changes. Patients with mental disorders (MD) are known to have more sleep problems, and antipsychotics (AP), used in the treatment of these patients, can also cause weight gain. This study aimed to compare the self-reported sleep patterns between psychiatric patients (on or off AP) and controls. We also evaluated the associations between the clinical and metabolic profiles with short or long sleep duration
%K sleep duration
%K sleep quality
%K metabolic syndrome
%K mental disorders
%K antipsychotics
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6650465/