According to new research out of Canada, older people who take the antipsychotic drugs quetiapine (brand name Seroquel), risperidone (Risperdal) and olanzapine (Zyprexa) are about one-and-a-half times more likely to experience an acute kidney injury. These findings support ongoing efforts to reduce antispsychotic use in long-term care facilities.
Within 90 days of starting to take the drugs, about 1,000 of those studies were hospitalized for acute kidney injury, or AKI. By comparison, only 600 people in the group not taking antipsychotics were hospitalized for AKI.
Atypical antipsychotic use was also linked to higher rates of hospitalization for conditions such as pneumonia, heart attack and the inability to pass urine.
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