Research Article: Automatic Thoughts, Self-Stigma, and Resilience Among Schizophrenia Patients with Metabolic Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional Study
Introduction:
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a debilitating psychiatric disorder with unknown etiology affecting ~% of the population worldwide; it is also considered one of the most incapacitating diseases. Previous observational studies have reported that the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) is high in patients with SCZ, from the increased coronary risk two-fold to four-fold of the remaining population, even to the extent of obtaining higher standardized mortality rate in SCZ patients. , MetS refers to the co-occurrence of…
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