Asenapine for the treatment of schizophrenia in a patient with overweight or predisposition for overweight

摘要

The invention provides means for the treatment of schizophrenia with an antipsychotic agent administered to a patient with overweight, or to a patient that was having weight gain due to an antipsychotic agent, or to a patient that needs to be protected against weight increase due to the presence of risk factors for a disease for which overweight is also a risk factor or due to the presence of other weight increasing factors by using asenapine for the manufacture of a medicine for such treatment.