Schizophrenia
More gender and age studies needed on niacin as schizophrenia biomarker
Published in Mental Health Weekly Digest, December 27th, 2004
"However, current efforts to implement niacin tests in routine diagnostics are jeopardized by wide inter-individual variations of skin response."
S. Smesny and colleagues, University of Jena, "investigated age and gender as potential factors of influence on niacin sensitivity in 117 healthy subjects (63 male, 54 female)."
According to their study, "Niacin was applied in three dilution steps (0.1, 0.01, 0.001 M) onto the inner forearm skin. Skin...
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