Investigation of the Relationship of Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics with Cardiovascular Risk Scores in Patients with Schizophrenia Living in Nursing Homes

Objective: Cardiovascular risk increases in patients with schizophrenia. In our study, it was aimed to predict the 10-year of developing cardiovascular disease using Framingham score schizophrenia living nursing homes
 Materials and Methods: sociodemographic clinical characteristics homes, such as age, gender, educational status, duration disease, treatments used, scoring which included gender total cholesterol, HDL, smoking systolic blood pressure, presence diabetes mellitus. were used calculation risk. Also, results General Assessment Functioning Clinical Global Impression severity scale recorded order determine functionality disease.
 Results: 51 included, calculated 4.65±4.63. While scores significantly correlated (r=0.284, p=0.044), age (r=0363, p=0.01) length stay home (r=0.538, p