Obesity in individuals with schizophrenia: a case controlled study in Scotland

Despite extensive clinical concern about rates of obesity in patients with schizophrenia, there is little evidence of the extent of this problem at a population level.To estimate levels of obesity in a national population sample by comparing patients with schizophrenia with matched controls.We calculated levels of obesity for each patient with schizophrenia from the national Primary Care Clinical Informatics Unit database (n=4658) matched with...