Comorbid conditions pose a serious risk to patients with bipolar disorder, but anxiety
comorbidity poses a specific hazard due to the increased negative impact of anxiety on …

Bipolar disorder most commonly is diagnosed in persons between 18 and 24 years of age.
The clinical presentations of this disorder are broad and include mania, hypomania and …

Bipolar disorder (BD) has traditionally been thought of as an episodic condition,
characterized by periods of hypomania/mania and depression. However, evidence is …

Baldessarini RJ, Salvatore P, Khalsa HMK, GebreMedhin P, Imaz H, GonzálezPinto A,
Perez J, Cruz N, Maggini C, Tohen M. Morbidity in 303 firstepisode bipolar I disorder …

Objective: To characterize the extent and impact of bipolar I and II disorders and rapid
cycling in a managed care population using both coded diagnostic claims and clinical …

Medical comorbidity in bipolar disorder: reprioritizing unme... : Current Opinion in Psychiatry
Medical comorbidity in bipolar disorder: reprioritizing unmet needs : Current Opinion in …

Purpose There is a lack of comprehensive cost-of-illness studies in bipolar disorder, in
particular studies based on patient-level data. The purpose of this study was to estimate the …

Background: Bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) has considerable implications for personal
and social functioning. However a tendency to be overrepresented in high socioeconomic …

David A. Kahn, MD, Ruth Ross, MA, David J. Printz, MD, and Gary S. Sachs, MD ipolar
disorder (also known as manic-depressive illness) is a severe biological disorder that affects …

About 1.5 per cent of the US population will experience bipolar disorder (Hyman, 2000).
Often, bipolar illness is a severe, recurrent or unremitting disorder with significant …