Article
Gender differences in age at onset of schizophrenia.
The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science - 1 May 1994
Faraone S V, Chen W J, Goldstein J M, Tsuang M T
Abstract excerpt
Numerous studies have found that male schizophrenic patients have earlier ages at onset than females. However, none of these studies have corrected the observed ages for known gender differences in the age distribution of the population. Using a pre-existing data set, we applied a non-parametric...
Topics
- Adult
- Age Factors
- Cohort Studies
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Phenotype
- Retrospective Studies
- Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenic Psychology
- Sex Factors