Endocrine Abstracts

Background: The high prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) in schizophrenia has been increasingly recognized in the mental health literature in recent years. The MS is a cluster of the most dangerous known cardiac risk factors (diabetes and prediabetes, abdominal obesity, high cholesterol level, and high blood pressure ‘BP’; according to the International Diabetes Federation Criteria, 2007). The existence of an increased mortality risk among people with...