RESUMO
The aim of this study was to assess the occurrence of tobacco smoking and obesity in 58 schizophrenia women aged 45.1 +/- 9.9 years. 72% of women declared tobacco dependence as well as 14% smoked dependently on mood and 14% didn't smoke. There were statistically significant differences between women whose smoke or not in the case of BMI. The smoking women had significant higher BMI than non-smoking women (27.81 +/- 3.51 vs. 22.35 +/- 4.29, respectively). We didn't observe such comparisons between period smoking women and smoking women as well as non-smoking women. In the case of frequency distribution of schizophrenia women according to BMI we observed significant differences in this parameter. In the little underweight women (BMI below 20, n = 5) 60% didn't smoke. In the group of normal weight women (BMI = 21-25, n = 14) 64% smoked and 22% didn't. In the groups of overweight women (BMI = 26-30, n = 28) and obese women (BMI > 30) most of them were smoked. In the first of those groups 79% were smoking women and only 7% nonsmoking as well as in the second--all of women were smoked. These results show that the tobacco dependence and obesity could strongly correlate in schizophrenia and we need more studies in this case.
