Psychiatric Morbidity and Toxic Burden in Patients With Environmental Illness: A Controlled Study
Susanne Bornschein, MD,
Constanze Hausteiner, MD,
Franz Konrad, MD,
Hans Förstl, MD and
Thomas Zilker, MD
From the Department of Toxicology, II. Med. Clinic (S.B., C.H., T.Z.) and the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (S.B., C.H., H.F.), Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany; and Siemens AG, Medical Department, Munich, Germany (F.K.).

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Figure 1. Most frequent complaints in patients (black) and controls (gray).
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Figure 2. Results of the metal survey analysis in patients (n = 84) and controls (n = 59) (percentages of subjects with slightly and moderately increased urine metal concentrations).
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Figure 3. Results of the solvent analysis in patients (n = 49) and controls (n = 59) (percentages of subjects with slightly and moderately increased blood solvent concentrations).
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Figure 4. Frequency of psychiatric diagnoses in patients (n = 308) and controls (n = 59).
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