Smoking in Schizophrenia: Diagnostic Specificity, Symptom Correlates, and Illness Severity
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Smoking in schizophrenia: diagnostic specificity, symptom correlates, and illness severity.
BACKGROUND Cigarette smoking was consistently found to be more prevalent in individuals with schizophrenia than in other psychiatric groups and the general population. These findings have been interpreted as evidence of a specific association between schizophrenia and smoking. However, the supporting data come primarily from cross-sectional studies, which are susceptible to confounding. Our aim...
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عنوان ژورنال: Schizophrenia Bulletin
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1745-1701,0586-7614
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbn066