प्रोग्नोसिस फॉर शिजोफ्रेनिया .

Prognosis for schizophrenia :
Since schizophrenia may lead to obesity (because of a sedenta-

ry life style)and heavy smoking a schizophrenic may die 12-15 years earlier than his age .Though suicides play a lesser role .
schizophrenia remains the third most disabling condition after quadriplegia and dementia and ahead of paraplegia and blindness .
Approximately three fourths of people with schizophrenia have ongoing disability with relapses .
Some people do recover completely and others function well in society .
Most people with schizophrenia live independently with community support .
In people with a first episode of psychosis a good long -term outcome occurs in 42%,intermediate in 35%,poor in 27%.
There is an higher than average rate associated with schizophrenia (4.9%),most oftentimes occurring in the period following onset or first hospital admission .
Several times more attempt to suicide at least once .
There are a variety of risk factors ,including male gender ,depression ,and a high intelligence quotient(I.Q.).
*0-90 %schizophrenics smoke and smoke heavily as compared to 20 %of general population .
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I am sorry ,the transliteration services of blogger are not operative .So the reporting today is in english .I think the website is under repair .
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