Janssen Inc., in consultation with Health Canada would like to inform healthcare professionals, caregivers and patients of important updates to the indication of risperidone for severe dementia. The decision to limit risperidone's indication to severe dementia of the Alzheimer type is based on a comprehensive evaluation of the safety information related to all antipsychotic drugs which indicated a higher risk of cerebrovascular adverse events in patients with the mixed or vascular dementia compared to those with dementia of the Alzheimer type.
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