[Ischemic heart disease in patients with schizophrenia (clinico-epidemiological study)].

We carried out a multicenter controlled study of case histories of patients with schizophrenia and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or postinfarction cardiosclerosis (PIC) from cardiological (n=44), psychosomatic (n=19) and psychiatric (n=23) hospitals was. In hospital mortality, ischemic heart disease (IHD) risk factors, peculiarities of IHD course, antipsychotic therapy were analyzed. Elevation of in hospital mortality related to PIC and its complications was revealed in somatopsychiatric (21% vs 1.26%; p<0.05) and psychiatric (29% vs 1.26%; p<0.05) hospitals. Hypercholesterolemia, excess weight in patients with schizophrenia were met more rarely (36, 32, 9, 21%, 16, 0% vs 61, 45%, respectively; p<0.05) while diabetes mellitus (5, 5, 9% vs 15%, respectively; p>0.05), arterial hypertension (89, 84, 45% vs 77%, respectively; p>0.05) - with same frequency as in comparison group. Patients with schizophrenia do not differ from persons not suffering from this psychiatric disease by proportion of patients with AMI (39, 47, 49% vs 43%; p>0.05) and PIC (73, 74, 61% vs 73%; p>0.05). Probability of effect of inadequate body weight and psychotherapy with phenothiazine derivatives and antiparkinsonian cholinolytic medications on elevation of mortality of patients with IHD and schizophrenia is discussed.