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Acute drug-induced akathisia is not associated with low serum iron status
1Neuropsychiatric Institute, Prince Henry Hospital, Little Bay, Sydney, Australia.
Psychopharmacology
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
The iron status of 50 consecutively admitted psychiatric patients due to be started on neuroleptic medication was examined. Fifteen of the patients developed akathisia in the 2 weeks of follow-up. The patients did not differ significantly from the 35 non-akathisic patients in serum iron and transferrin levels and haemoglobin values. The findings do not support the postulated association between low serum iron status and acute neuroleptic-induced akathisia.