Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Patients With Schizophrenia

AUTOR(ES)

Kato, Martha M.

FONTE

Physicians Postgraduate Press

RESUMO

Background: Metabolic syndrome, a constellation of truncal obesity, dyslipidemia, disturbed insulin and glucose metabolism, and hypertension, is associated with the development of diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease. However, the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in Hispanic patients with schizophrenia and whether they differ from comparable non-Hispanic patients is uncertain.

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