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Confounding by indication of a specific antipsychotic and the increase of body mass index among children and adolescents

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Granada, Av. Madrid 11, 18071, Granada, Spain

    José María Martínez-Ortega, Francisco Diaz-Atienza & Manuel Gurpegui

  2. Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit, Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital, Granada, Spain

    José María Martínez-Ortega & Francisco Diaz-Atienza

  3. CTS-549 Research Group, Institute of Neurosciences, Centre for Biomedical Research (CIBM), University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    José María Martínez-Ortega, Francisco Diaz-Atienza, Luis Gutiérrez-Rojas, Dolores Jurado & Manuel Gurpegui

  4. Psychiatry Service, San Cecilio University Hospital, Granada, Spain

    Luis Gutiérrez-Rojas

  5. Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

    Dolores Jurado

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This study was performed at the Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital, University of Granada, Spain, and was supported by a grant from the Servicio Andaluz de Salud (grant number PI-0309/CS 2006).

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Martínez-Ortega, J.M., Diaz-Atienza, F., Gutiérrez-Rojas, L. et al. Confounding by indication of a specific antipsychotic and the increase of body mass index among children and adolescents. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 20, 597–598 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-011-0215-z

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