For example, a 62-pound, 50-inch tall, 8-year-old girl has a BMI of 17.5, which puts her at the 77th percentile for age. This is a healthy weight for her age and her parents should expect future weight gains to keep her BMI-for-age tracking along the 77th percentile as she gets older.
antipsychotic agents to cause hyperprolactinaemia is related to their potency in antagonising DA-2 receptors on the anterior pituitary. The patients greatest at risk are young women pre-puberty, due to HPG dysfunction
Atypical antipsychotics are used in the treatment of schizophrenias, delusional disorders, dementias, and in cases where behavior is violent and unpredictable. The prototype of the group of drugs is clozapine.Others in current clinical use include olanzapine, risperidone, and quetiapine. newer class of antipsychotic drugs that produce fewer extra pyramidal effects compared to the original typical version. They are also less likely to alter serum levels of prolactin and appear to be less likely to cause tardic dyskinesia-all of which are significant adverse effects of the typical antipsychotic drugs.