title: Frequency distribution of serum cholesterol levels in patients with panic disorder: comparison with normal controls.
abstract: We compared the frequency distribution of total cholesterol (TC) levels in 103 patients with panic disorder (PD) with that in 173 gender- and age-matched normal controls (NC). There was no significant difference in the mean TC level between the PD and the NC groups. The distribution of TC levels in the PD group was similar to that in the NC group. As a whole distribution pattern, there is no association between high serum cholesterol levels and panic disorder. However, four male PD patients had very high TC levels of more than 260 mg/dL, and two of them had obviously deviated values from the frequency distribution of TC levels in the NC group. Our findings are supportive of the view that male PD patients with high TC levels have excess mortality due to cardiovascular diseases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shioiri
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fujii
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Someya
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takahashi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016584:Panic Disorder / Q000097:blood* / Q000523:psychology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
chemical_list: D002784:Cholesterol