Background Bipolar disorder is recognized as a major mental health issue, and its economic
impact has been examined in the United States. However, there exists a general scarcity of …

OBJECTIVE: This study assessed treatment rates and expenditures for behavioral health
care by employers and behavioral health care patients in a large national database of …

Background: Detailed assessments of the direct costs related to bipolar disorder and of the
burden it places on the health care system are limited. Objective: In this retrospective, cross …

Medical comorbidities are common in patients with bipolar (BP) disorder but have not been
previously examined for differences between United States and Europe. More than 900 …

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Bipolar disorder is a common, complex, and recurrent severe mental health condition with
progressive social and cognitive function disturbances and comorbid medical problems …

Objectives: This review summarizes the literature on psychiatric and medical comorbidities
in bipolar disorder. The coexistence of other Axis I disorders with bipolar disorder …

The central tenet of clinical comorbidity--the occurrence of 2 syndromes in the same patient--
presupposes that they are distinct categorical entities. By this definition, 2 or more coexisting …

OBJECTIVE: To conduct an analysis yielding estimates of the direct and indirect costs
accruing from bipolar I and II disorders in 2009. The last analysis of these costs pertained to …

Objective: Treatment of coexisting medical comorbidities may reduce the risk of adverse
outcomes among patients with bipolar disorder. We determined the prevalence of general …