Monitoring and prevalence rates of metabolic syndrome in military veterans with serious mental illness.

BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality among patients with serious mental illness (SMI) and the prevalence of metabolic syndrome--a constellation of cardiovascular risk factors--is significantly higher in these patients than in the general population. Metabolic monitori...

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Main Authors: Sameed Ahmed M Khatana, Joshua Kane, Tracey H Taveira, Mark S Bauer, Wen-Chih Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3082569?pdf=render