Quality of life and clinical characteristics in a nonselected sample of patients with schizophrenia.

CONCLUSION: Patients experienced low QOL. Lower QOL was associated with high BMI, low ADD and smoking in first-ever diagnosed patients and with high BMI and short illness duration in long-term ill patients.
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Source: The International Journal of Social Psychiatry - May 18, 2015 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Medici CR, Vestergaard CH, Hjorth P, Hansen MV, Shanmuganathan JW, Viuff AG, Munk-Jørgensen P Tags: Int J Soc Psychiatry Source Type: research