Prevalence of dental caries in hospitalized patients with schizophrenia.

Background/aim: It is considered that over 450 million people worldwide suffer from some form of mental disorder. Previous studies in other countries have shown that schizophrenia is among the most frequent. Oral health is significant for general health and should not be separated from mental health.

Fatal pulmonary thromboembolism after prolonged physical immobilization in hospitalized psychiatric patients.

Background/aim: Pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) may be one of the causes of sudden death in hospitalized psychiatric patients. The aim of our study was to investigate whether fatal PTE in these patients may be the result of their prolonged physical immobilization, particularly when there were associated risk factors, and to emphasize the importance of this problem.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of medical records of psychiatric patients died suddenly at the Department of Intensive Care of the Clinic of Psychiatry "Dr Laza Lazarevic", Belgrade, in the period January 1, 2010 - December 31, 2011, was performed.

Antipsychotics can modulate the cytokine profile in schizophrenia: attenuation of the type-2 inflammatory response.

Objective: We recently reported that the type-2 cytokine response is increased in schizophrenia. The aim of this study was to analyse the effects of antipsychotic drugs on the serum levels of type-1 (TNF-α, IFN-γ), type-2 (IL-4, IL-10), type-17 (IL-17) and regulatory cytokines (TGF-β, IL-27 and IL-6).

Methods: Cytokine measurements in the patients were performed on day 0 and day 30 of the treatment using standard ELISA assays.

Aggression in adolescents: characteristics and treatment.

Introduction: Vulnerability of young people and frustration of their basic biological, emotional, cognitive and social needs can induce a series of psycho-pathological manifestations, including aggression.

Objective: Aim of this study is to examine the manifestations of aggressiveness in young people and to establish the difference between aggressive responses of two age groups; adolescents aged 16-19 years and older adolescents aged 20-26 years.

Methods: The sample consists of 100 young people aged 16-19 years (46 adolescents) and 20-26 years (54 adolescents).

[Cardiovascular diseases mortality in the population of Belgrade aged 30-69 years for 1990-2002 period].

During the period between 1990 and 2002 in Belgrade population, almost every second person aged 30-69 years, died of some cardiovascular disease (CVD). Men, as compared to women, had higher standardized mortality rates from CVD (1.7 times), ischemic heart diseases (2.