More medical comorbidities in patients with bipolar disorder from the United States than from the Netherlands and Germany

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 202, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 265-270

  Post, Robert M ^a   Altshuler, Lori L ^b   Leverich, Gabriele S ^a   Frye, Mark A ^c   Suppes, Trish ^d   Mcelroy, Susan L ^e,f   Keck, Paul E ^e,f   Nolen, Willem A ^g   Kupka, Ralph W ^h   Grunze, Heinz ⁱ   Rowe, Mike ^a  

^a Bipolar Collaborative Network   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Linder Center of Hope   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^h VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

ⁱ NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Loss of years of life expectancy; Medical illness; Metabolic syndrome; Migraine; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLERGY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BIPOLAR I DISORDER; BIPOLAR II DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; EUROPE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; GERMANY; HEAD INJURY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IRRITABLE COLON; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MIGRAINE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; OBESITY; OUTPATIENT; SCHIZOAFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; SEIZURE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OBESITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897581044     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000116     Document Type: Article

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