A relationship between urine specific gravity and hyponatremia in hospitalized schizophrenic patients

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-64

  Kawai, Nobutoshi ^a   Sakai, Toshiko ^a   Kurita, Hirofumi ^a,b   Baba, Atsuomi ^b   Suzuki, Toshihito ^b   Shiraishi, Hiroyasu ^b  

^a Mitsukaido Kosei Hospital   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hyposthenuria; Intermittent hyponatremia; Polydipsia; Schizophrenia; Syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH); Water intoxication

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYDIPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE DENSITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; URINALYSIS; WATER INTOXICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPONATREMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SPECIFIC GRAVITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0032853307     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(99)00045-1     Document Type: Article

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