Adult Medication-Free Schizophrenic Patients Exhibit Long-Chain Omega-3 Fatty Acid Deficiency: Implications for Cardiovascular Disease Risk

Table 1

Subject demographics.

Variable	HC	SZ	𝑃 value^1
Age (years),; mean ± SD	32.5 ± 9.7	29.2 ± 8.2	0.25
Gender	10 M, 14 F	12 M, 6 F
Race	5 AS, 6 AA, 1 H, 12 C	12 AA, 1 H, 5 C
PANSS (Total)	—	62.1 ± 19.4

¹𝑡-tests (2-tail).
AS: Asian, AA: African American, H: Hispanic, C: Caucasian.
PANSS: positive and negative symptom scale.