Weight gain is greater with some antidepressants than others, US study finds

Doctors might want to consider the propensity of different antidepressants for increasing a patient’s weight when prescribing to people in whom weight gain could have adverse health consequences, a group of US researchers has said.

The recommendation came after a study that they conducted that found that some antidepressants were associated with greater weight gain than others over a 12 month period. The Boston based researchers reviewed the electronic health records of a large New …