PMID- 10572367
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19991221
LR  - 20200109
IS  - 0924-9338 (Print)
IS  - 0924-9338 (Linking)
VI  - 14
IP  - 6
DP  - 1999 Oct
TI  - No correlation of serum cholesterol levels with measures of violence in patients 
      with schizophrenia and non-psychotic disorders.
PG  - 346-8
AB  - Epidemiological studies, animal studies, and clinical studies yielded conflicting 
      results concerning a supposed association between increased risk for suicide and 
      violence, and low serum cholesterol levels. Until now, no data has been available 
      for patients with schizophrenia, a disorder with a well-known increased risk of 
      violence. Correlations of serum cholesterol levels at admission and measures of 
      violence were investigated in 103 consecutively admitted patients (44 males, 59 
      females) of a general psychiatric admission unit. Seventy subjects were diagnosed 
      as suffering from schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder (ICD-10 F 20, F25), 
      and 33 were diagnosed as suffering from non-psychotic disorders (mainly 
      personality disorders). The level of total exhibited violence during the 
      inpatient treatment period was measured in each patient by the Modified Overt 
      Aggression Scale (MOAS), the Social Dysfunction and Aggression Scale (SDAS), the 
      Staff Observation Aggression Scale (SOAS), and the Violence Scale (VS). 
      Correlations of all violence measures were high (0.75-0.90), but no correlation 
      was found with cholesterol levels, neither for psychotic nor for non-psychotic 
      subjects, neither for men nor for women. The hypothesis of associations of 
      violence and cholesterol levels is not supported by the data.
FAU - Steinert, T
AU  - Steinert T
AD  - Centre of Psychiatry Weissenau, Dep. Psychiatry 1, University of Ulm, Germany.
FAU - Woelfle, M
AU  - Woelfle M
FAU - Gebhardt, R P
AU  - Gebhardt RP
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - Eur Psychiatry
JT  - European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists
JID - 9111820
RN  - 97C5T2UQ7J (Cholesterol)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - Aged
MH  - Cholesterol/*blood
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Personality Disorders/*blood/diagnosis
MH  - Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
MH  - Schizophrenia/*blood/diagnosis
MH  - Schizophrenic Psychology
MH  - Severity of Illness Index
MH  - Violence/*psychology
EDAT- 1999/11/26 00:00
MHDA- 1999/11/26 00:01
CRDT- 1999/11/26 00:00
PHST- 1999/11/26 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1999/11/26 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1999/11/26 00:00 [entrez]
AID - S0924-9338(99)00157-1 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/s0924-9338(99)00157-1 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Eur Psychiatry. 1999 Oct;14(6):346-8. doi: 10.1016/s0924-9338(99)00157-1.