title: Serum lipid concentrations in obsessive-compulsive disorder patients with and without panic attacks.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine serum lipid levels in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and to test whether panic symptoms affect lipid concentrations in OCD patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  We assessed 33 OCD patients and 33 healthy control subjects matched for sex and age.
  
  
  RESULTS
  OCD patients had higher low-density lipoprotein, very-low-density lipoprotein, and tryglyceride levels, but lower high-density lipoprotein levels, than normal control subjects. We also found that only OCD patients with panic attacks had higher serum lipid concentrations, compared with normal control subjects. Serum lipid levels of pure OCD patients did not differ from control values.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These findings suggest that high serum lipid concentrations are related to panic anxiety rather than other symptoms of the illness.
authors.affiliation: Yuzuncu Yil University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Research Center, Van, Turkey. myagargun@kure.com.tr
authors.forename: Mehmet Yucel
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Agargun
authors.forename: Haluk
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dulger
authors.forename: Rifat
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Inci
authors.forename: Hayrettin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kara
authors.forename: Omer Akil
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Ozer
authors.forename: Mehmet Ramazan
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Sekeroglu
authors.forename: Lutfullah
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Besiroglu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000097:blood*; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006937:Hypercholesterolemia / Q000097:blood* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000097:blood* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016584:Panic Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D014280:Triglycerides; D002784:Cholesterol