Cardiovascular Psychiatry and Neurology

Review Article

S100B Serum Levels in Schizophrenia Are Presumably Related to Visceral Obesity and Insulin Resistance

Table 2

Demographics and clinical measurements of drug free patients with paranoid schizophrenia compared with control subjects which were closely matched for BMI and smoking habits. Annotation: data are given as mean standard deviation (SD), n.a. = not applicable, NOVA, hi-square-test, positive or negative influence on measures, bold P-values were significant.
Demographic dataControls ( )Paranoid schizophrenia: drug free ( )Schizophrenia versus controls P-values
Age [ ] 0.94
Duration of disease [ ]— —
Male/Female [ ] 1.00
BMI [kg/m2] 0.62
Smokers/non-smokers [ ] 0.66
MeasuresMean ± SDMean ± SD
S100B [ g/L] 0.02
hs-CRP [mg/L] 0.26
TNF- [ng/L] 0.58
Leptin [ g/L] 0.76
MCP-1 [ng/L] 0.93
HGF [ g/L] 0.54
Resistin [ g/L] 0.21
PAI-1 [ g/L] 0.13
Triglycerides [mg/dL] 0.09
Glucose [mg/dL] 0.01
C-peptide [pmol/L] 0.01