Increased cardiometabolic dysfunction in first-degree relatives of patients with psychotic disorders
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Increased cardiometabolic dysfunction in first-degree relatives of patients with psychotic disorders.
INTRODUCTION Elevated prevalence of comorbid cardio-vascular and metabolic dysfunction (CMD) is consistently reported in patients with severe psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia (SZ), schizoaffective (SZA) and bipolar disorder (BP-P). Since both psychosis and CMD are substantively heritable in nature, we attempted to investigate the occurrence of CMD disorders in first-degree relatives of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Schizophrenia Research
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0920-9964
DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2015.03.034