Methods: A search was conducted on Pubmed, The Cochrane Library, Scopus, Embase, Ovid, Psychoinfo
and ISI web of Knowledge from 1950 to the 1st of November 2011. 783 articles were found through the
investigation of such databases. After title, abstract or full-text reading and applying exclusion criteria we
reviewed 31 studies on dietary patterns and their effects on metabolic parameters in schizophrenia.