Schizophrenia disorders associated with Brugada syndrome
Ion-channel abnormalities may link the two conditions, researchers suggest
24th July 2019
A "considerable subset" of patients with recent-onset schizophrenia spectrum disorders have ECGs suggesting Brugada syndrome, researchers say.
Dutch researchers compared ECGs of 388 patients with recent-onset schizophrenia spectrum disorders with those of 844 medical students who served as controls.
“Brugada syndrome can provoke lethal cardiac arrhythmias and has been estimated to cause 4% of all sudden cardiac deaths in the population and at least 20% of sudden cardiac deaths in people without structural heart disease,” the