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The result was that over 4 percent of the patients developed diabetes which is nearly 10 times more than the general population. However, they were only barely able to note a statistical difference between medications in their liability towards causing diabetes. Only clozapine and olanzapine showed an increased risk of diabetes compared to the general group. The authors concluded that those medications did confer an increased risk, but a small one and attributed the overall increased risk of diabetes to other aspects of schizophrenia that have yet to be fully described but could be overall poor diet, poor medical care followup, low socioeconomic status and low exercise amounts.

≥ 1/1000 patients and < 1/100 patients -speech disorder, parkinsonism, memory impairment, cogwheel rigidity, cerebrovascular accident, hypokinesia, tardive dyskinesia, hypotonia, myoclonus, hypertonia, akinesia, bradykinesia;