Erratum to: Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci DOI 10.1007/s00406-010-0118-x

Unfortunately Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 were published with errors. The corrected figures are given here.

Fig. 1
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Prevalence of metabolic syndrome for men in patients with schizophrenia and general population (METSAR study) [39] according to the ATP criteria. *p = .0162

Fig. 2
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Prevalence of metabolic syndrome for women in patients with schizophrenia and general population (METSAR study) [39] according to the ATP criteria. *p = .0039

Fig. 3
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Effect of sex on 10-year coronary heart disease risk in patients with schizophrenia. *p < .0001; **p = .001

Fig. 4
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Effect of metabolic syndrome by sex and age on 10-year coronary heart disease risk in schizophrenia. *p < .0001; **p = .002; ***p = .003; p = .001; p = .006

In addition, the reference number of Mc Evoy et al. in Table 1 was corrected to [16].

Table 1 Prevalence estimates of the metabolic syndrome in patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder in different countries [8–36]