Metabolic and cardiovascular comorbidities in a 61-year-old female patient with chronic schizophrenia
Patient introduction
Jane Preston was trained as a shop assistant, but she is not currently working and has an invalidity pension. She is a widow, has two adult daughters and two sisters, and now lives alone.
She was hospitalised in the Department of Psychiatry via the Centre for Crisis Intervention. She has been treated for paranoid schizophrenia for about 25 years. She was hospitalised due to a relapse of this disorder. She was 61 at the time of her current hospitalisation.
Family history: her father died at the age of 88, her mother (now 81) is being treated for essential hypertension and diabetes mellitus II. She has no psychiatric family history.
Proceed to the medical history:
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