Deterioration of metabolic parameters during short-term psychiatric inpatient treatment: a prospective naturalistic study.

Objective: To investigate the influence of a single episode of psychiatric inpatient treatment on metabolic parameters.

Methods: A total of 294 consecutive patients of an Upper Austrian psychiatric department were assessed at admission and discharge regarding bodyweight, body mass index (BMI), high density cholesterol (HDL), low density cholesterol (LDL), triglycerides (TG) and fasting glucose (FG), and the TG/HDL ratio.

Results: Patients showed an increase of BMI of 0.