Smoking in Chronic Schizophrenia
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Smoking and schizophrenia.
Smoking prevalence for schizophrenic patients is higher than this for general population. More than 60% of schizophrenic patients are current smokers, which contributes to excessive mortality in these patients. The reasons for high frequency of both smoking prevalence and heavy smoking in schizophrenic patients is thought to be at least partially related to enhancement of brain dopaminergic act...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1986
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/s0007125000139856