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Risks for osteopenia and osteoporosis are increased in smokers and in patients with major depressive disorder, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, or anorexia nervosa. To learn more about these risks and potential contributing factors, including psychotropic medications (e.g., via medication-induced hyperprolactinemia), investigators in Finland studied 48 patients with schizophrenia, 56 with other nonaffective psychoses, 37 with affective psychoses, and 6100 nationally representative population controls (mean age, 52). The investigators used broadband ultrasound attenuation to determine calcaneal bone status (bone structure and density).
Women with schizophrenia had compromised bone status (test values >0.5 standard deviations lo…