[Gastric ulcers, stress and schizophrenia. Incidence of gastric ulcers in male schizophrenic patients (author's transl)].
According to the hypothesis of a biochemical disorder, we found that schizophrenic patients show a modified reaction to stress. We have checked 668 male schizophrenic patients and found 18 ulcers (2.69%) this is contrasted by the average incidence of ulcers at the rate of 10%.12 of the 18 probands had preliminary serious somatic lesions. We came to the conslusion that the hypothalamic stress response is altered: Schizophrenic patients and the normal population show a significant difference to the incidence of gastric ulcers.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D007031:Hypothalamus / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012737:Sex Factors; D013276:Stomach Ulcer / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000503:physiopathology; D013788:Thalamus / Q000503:physiopathology
Ulcus, Stress und Schizophrenie. Zur Frage der Ulcushäufigkeit bei männlichen schizophrenen Patienten