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Body fat volumes and distribution in chronic schizophrenia compared to healthy controls; a cross-sectional MR study
2021-09-22
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Summary</h4> People with schizophrenia show higher risk for abdominal obesity than the general population, which could contribute to excess mortality. However, it is unclear whether this is driven by alterations in abdominal fat partitioning. Here, we test the hypothesis that individuals with schizophrenia show a higher proportion of visceral to total body fat measured using MRI. We recruited 38 patients with...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ecadfe9e-480d-5398-b08d-b71e9925b6ba
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.09.20.21263820
