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Role of cigarette use in hyponatremia in schizophrenic patients
1Department of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City.
The American Journal of Psychiatry
|August 1, 1990
Abstract:
Urine volume and osmolality were studied in two schizophrenic patients with hyponatremia and six normal subjects after they smoked or ingested cigarettes. The results suggest that cigarette use may contribute to the development of hyponatremia by impairing water excretion.