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Catatonia: demographic, clinical and laboratory associations.

Jonathan P RogersThomas A PollakNazifa BegumAnna GriffinBen CarterMegan PritchardMatthew BroadbentAnna KolliakouJessie KeRobert StewartRashmi PatelAdrian BomfordAli AmadMichael S ZandiGlyn LewisTimothy R NicholsonAnthony S David
Published in: Psychological medicine (2021)
In the largest clinical study of catatonia, we found catatonia occurred in approximately 1 per 10 000 person-years. Evidence for a proinflammatory state was mixed. Catatonia was associated with prolonged inpatient admission but not with increased mortality.
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