To evaluate socio-demographic, clinical, analytical and pharmacologic variables in psychiatric patients and to determine the prevalence of metabolic syndrome.

Descriptive transversal study of hospitalized patients at Sobral Cid Hospital, random chosen from hospitalized acute and chronic patients.

In a total of 51 individuals, 88.2% were male, 21.6% have between 40 and 50 years old (mean- 50.5 years), without known cardiac disease (92.2%), without tobacco (58.8%), alcohol (74.5%) or other substances consumer (92.2%), having 13.7% diabetes mellitus and 31.4% hypertension. The diagnostic group most prevalent was Schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders. The following parameters were determined: abdominal obesity (15.75), hypertrygliceridemia (25.5%), low HDL (70.6%), arterial hypertension (41.2%), high level of glycaemia (13.7%), elevated PCR (35.3%), BMI superior or equal to 25 (56.9%) and metabolic syndrome (19.6%). In relation to therapeutics 45.1% were medicated with antidepressives and 76.5% with antipsychotics (47.1% with atypicals).

It is fundamental that the assistant psychiatry identifies and orients patients with cardiovascular risk systematically, and also take into account those parameters when prescribing psychodrugs.