Early onset of cardiometabolic risk factor profiles in drug naïve adolescents and young adults with first-episode schizophrenia

Objective and method We performed a case-control study, which included antipsychotic-naive first-episode schizophrenia (FES) of adolescents and young adults and general population controls, to investigate the early-onset cardiometabolic risk factors in FES. Results FES had more frequent lower HDL-C when compared to controls. However, the distribution of BMI and the frequency of hypercholesterolemia, elevated LDL-C, hypertriglyceridemia in FES were not significantly different to controls. Conclusions The results indicated that abnormal HDL-C might be an early-onset event in drug-naive FES of adolescents and young adults who are unlikely to have other cardiometabolic risks.