The Relationship of Functional Status of Cortisol, Testosterone, and Parameters of Metabolic Syndrome in Male Schizophrenics

Figure 1

Flowchart of the screening process and data classification. We enrolled 174 male schizophrenics for each group from 250 candidates over those exclusion criteria. These cases were grouped by disease severity of MetS (76 cases in non-MetS group, 78 cases in high-risk-MetS group, with one or two of the above metabolic disorders, and 20 cases in MetS group, with three or more metabolic disorders).