Cigarette smoking in male patients with chronic schizophrenia in a Chinese population: prevalence and relationship to clinical phenotypes.

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...

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Main Authors: Xiang Yang Zhang, Jun Liang, Da Chun Chen, Mei Hong Xiu, Jincai He, Wei Cheng, Zhiwei Wu, Fu De Yang, Colin N Haile, Hongqiang Sun, Lin Lu, Therese A Kosten, Thomas R Kosten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3274516?pdf=render