| Literature DB >> 17919737 |
Karl-Jürgen Bär1, Kirsten Wernich, Silke Boettger, Joachim Cordes, Michael Karl Boettger, Stefan Löffler, Jürgen Kornischka, Marcus-Willi Agelink.
Abstract
Disturbed autonomic nervous system (ANS) function in schizophrenia might contribute to increased cardiovascular mortality. We obtained heart rate variability indices from 40 unmedicated schizophrenic patients and 58 matched controls. Mainly we found that patients displaying stronger psychotic symptoms as assessed by the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale exhibit more severe cardiac ANS disturbances compared with controls.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17919737 DOI： 10.1016/j.psychres.2007.04.021
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Psychiatry Res ISSN： 0165-1781 Impact factor: 3.222