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Lifestyle‐related cardiovascular risk factors in patients with bipolar disorder
Author(s) -
Brown Steve,
Ramesh Rupa,
Newson Stephanie,
Isaacs Rosie
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
progress in neurology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.19
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1931-227X
pISSN - 1367-7543
DOI - 10.1002/pnp.293
Subject(s) - bipolar disorder , medicine , obesity , diabetes mellitus , risk factor , population , cohort , psychiatry , gerontology , environmental health , endocrinology , cognition
Studies suggest that people with bipolar affective disorder have higher rates of cardiovascular risk factors such as obesity, hypertension, diabetes, smoking and poor diet; however, there are few studies assessing specific risk factors in the UK population. Dr Brown and colleagues present the results of their study to evaluate lifestyle‐related cardiovascular risk factors in a community cohort of patients with bipolar disorder compared with the UK general population.