Open AccessA Cross-sectional Study to Estimate Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients with Bipolar Disorder
Author(s) -
Swetha Reddy Damegunta,
Prasad Rao Gundugurti
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 0975-1564
pISSN - 0253-7176
DOI - 10.4103/ijpsym.ijpsym_369_17
Subject(s) - medicine , framingham risk score , population , bipolar disorder , comorbidity , anthropometry , family history , national cholesterol education program , socioeconomic status , cross sectional study , metabolic syndrome , disease , environmental health , obesity , lithium (medication) , pathology
There is increasing recognition of cardiovascular mortality and comorbidity in bipolar disorder (BD) in the recent times. Framingham 10 years risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) has been a widely accepted as a reliable estimate of cardiovascular risk in the general population. A few studies have estimated the relative risk of developing CHD in BDs, in India. We attempt to present a cross-sectional data from a prospective study to estimate the 10 years cardiovascular risk in BD population.