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Frequency distribution of serum cholesterol levels in patients with panic disorder: Comparison with normal controls
Author(s) -
SHIOIRI TOSHIKI,
FUJII KUMIKO,
SOMEYA TOSHIYUKI,
TAKAHASHI SABURO
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-1819.1998.00459.x
Subject(s) - panic disorder , medicine , panic , cholesterol , distribution (mathematics) , endocrinology , total cholesterol , normal group , gastroenterology , psychiatry , anxiety , mathematics , mathematical analysis
We compared the frequency distribution of total cholesterol (TC) levels in 103 patients with panic disorder (PD) with that in 173 gender‐ and age‐matched normal controls (NC). There was no significant difference in the mean TC level between the PD and the NC groups. The distribution of TC levels in the PD group was similar to that in the NC group. As a whole distribution pattern, there is no association between high serum cholesterol levels and panic disorder. However, four male PD patients had very high TC levels of more than 260mg/dL, and two of them had obviously deviated values from the frequency distribution of TC levels in the NC group. Our findings are supportive of the view that male PD patients with high TC levels have excess mortality due to cardiovascular diseases.