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  • Body mass index and functioning in long-term schizophrenia: Results of the DSP project

  • Raimo K.R. Salokangas, Teija Honkonen, Eija Stengård, Jarmo Hietala
  • Journal:
    European Psychiatry / Volume 22 / Issue 5 / July 2007
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 April 2020, pp. 313-318
  • Objective

    The study evaluates the association of body mass index (BMI) with functioning in male and female patients with long-term schizophrenia.

    Method

    722 long-term schizophrenia patients were interviewed three years after discharge from hospital. Their weight and height were recorded and data on their background, illness history, psychosocial functioning (Global Assessment Scale; GAS), health behaviour, daily doses of neuroleptics, and psychiatric symptoms were collected.

    Results

    BMI correlated significantly with GAS scores in male (r = 0.202, p = 0.000) but not in female patients. In male patients, BMI associated significantly (p = 0.005) with GAS scores even when the effects of psychiatric symptoms and other confounding variables were taken into account.

    Conclusions

    In male but not in female long-term patients with schizophrenia, low BMI associates with poor functioning. It is suggested that among male schizophrenia patients, low BMI may be an indicator of poor functioning.