Schizophrenic patients’ cognitive functions in relation to their metabolic profile: a cross-sectional, comparative study on an Egyptian sample

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 2 Correlations of patients’ group metabolic profile and clinical data

	BMI			FBG			Cholesterol level
	R	p	Sig	R	p	Sig	R	p	Sig
Age Age-onset Dur-treat PANSS No-Hospit No-Epis No-ECT	0.972 0.93 0.97 0.985 0.917 0.919 0.952	0* 0* 0* 0* 0* 0* 0*	S S S S S S S	0.95 0.872 0.955 0.961 0.898 0.903 0.923	0* 0* 0* 0* 0* 0* 0*	S S S S HS S S	0.112 0.423 0.204 0.427 0.346 x 0.346	0.857 0.478 0.742 0.473 0.569 x 0.569	NS NS NS NS NS x NS

Dur-treat duration of illness, PANSS Positive and Negative Symptom Scale, No-Hospit number of hospitalization, No-Epis number of episodes, No-ECT number of electroconvulsive therapy, BMI body mass index, Sig significant, NS non-significant
*Significant