A small number of psychiatric inpatients displays a large proportion Violent Behaviors (VB). These can have major impact on both victims and patients themselves. This study explored personal, situational institutional risk factors their combined effects, which could lead to repetitive VB (three or more assaults). Data from 4518 patients, aged 18 65, admitted an acute care facility, were include...

prematurity is the most common cause of neonatal death. risk factors of premature birth can be related with ethnicity and genetic. there is no comprehensive high sample size study in kurdish ethnicity to determine risk factors related to prematurity. this study evaluated risk factors of preterm labor in kurdish ethnicity.this case-control study was conducted in 200 preterm infants (case group) ...

OBJECTIVE The human Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor 11 (ARHGEF11) gene is one of the candidate genes for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). ARHGEF11 is mapped to chromosome 1q21, which has susceptible risk loci for T2DM and schizophrenia. We hypothesized that ARHGEF11 contributes to the pathogenesis of schizophrenia. METHOD We selected eight single nucleotide polymorphisms of ARHGEF11 th...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationships between dopamine D2 receptor gene polymorphisms and the risk of schizophrenia using meta-analysis. METHOD The PubMed, Embase, and China National Knowledge Infrastructure databases were searched to identify relevant literature published up to February 2016. The allele contrast model was used. Stata software was used for statistical analysis, with odds r...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) is an important enzyme of folate metabolism, whose role in schizophrenia is debatable. Numerous case-control studies have investigated the association of MTHFR A1298C polymorphism with schizophrenia, but results are controversial. The aim of the present study was to find the association between MTHFR A1298C gene polymorphism an...

Background: Age is a strong risk factor for increasing the risk of severity and death from Covid-19. The risk of hospitalization for Covid-19 disease increases with age. Since the elderly constitute a large proportion of Covid-19 patients, the present study was performed to evaluate the severity of the disease in the hospitalized elderly due to Covid-19 and the delay in hospitalization and deat...

OBJECTIVE To study how often severe psychiatric disorders adversely affect a person's ability to be a parent, indicated by the child being placed in out-of-home care. METHOD This study was conducted in 2013 as a prospective, register-based cohort study covering all first-born singletons in the entire Danish population born after 1982 (N = 782,092) and their parents. Rates of out-of-home place...

INTRODUCTION Childhood adversity is gaining increasing attention as a plausible etiological factor in the development of psychotic disorders. Childhood residential mobility is a potential risk factor that has received little attention in this context. METHODS We used registry data to estimate associations of residential mobility with narrow and broad schizophrenia and bipolar disorder across ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is known to lead to a range of adverse psychiatric sequelae but the question of whether TBI is a risk factor for psychosis and, in particular, schizophrenia remains unclear. Studies examining this issue have yielded conflicting results. We carried out a systematic review of the literature on TBI and psychosis in order to identify all population-based controlled stud...