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Lower Incidence and Increased Male: Female Ratio in Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Luc Nicole ,
Alain Lesage  and
Pierre Lalonde
Luc Nicole*
Affiliation:
Le Centre de Recherche, Université Laval-Robert-Giffard, 2601 Chemin de la Canardière, Beauport (Québec), G1J 2G3 Canada
Alain Lesage
Affiliation:
Centre de Réherche Fernand-Seguin, Hôpital Louis-H. Lafontaine, Montréal
Pierre Lalonde
Affiliation:
Hôpital Louis-H. Lafontaine, Montréal
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

Patients with an ICD–9 diagnosis of psychotic disorder were assessed for DSM–III–R schizophrenia. Rates of schizophrenia were found to be higher in males (39.8 per 100 000) than females (22.4 per 100 000). The DSM–III–R Incidence supports recent studies which suggest a decrease in rates of schizophrenia across time, and also suggests that men suffer from both more schizophrenia and a more severe form of the disease.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 161 , Issue 4 , October 1992 , pp. 556 - 557
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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