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Cigarette smoking in male patients with chronic schizophrenia in a Chinese population: prevalence and relationship to clinical phenotypes.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Zhang Xiang Yang, Liang Jun, Chen Da Chun, Xiu Mei Hong, He Jincai, Cheng Wei, Wu Zhiwei, Yang Fu De, Haile Colin N, Sun Hongqiang, Lu Lin, Kosten Therese A, Kosten Thomas R
Abstract excerpt
The high prevalence of smoking in schizophrenia of European background may be related to smoking's reducing clinical symptoms and medication side effects. Because smoking prevalence and its associations with clinical phenotypes are less well characterized in Chinese than European patients with schizophrenia, we assessed these smoking behaviors using clinician-administered questionnaires and the Fagerstrom Test...
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