This article reviews the prevalence of bipolar disorder, as well as the studies quantifying the
burden of illness and cost of illness of this condition. It also discusses barriers to treatment …

Not only is bipolar disorder a chronic, severe psychiatric disorder, it is also expensive to treat
and expensive to society. An estimate of the total cost of bipolar disorder made more than a …

Bipolar disorder is a chronic, severe, recurrent mood disorder. Traditional estimates of the
prevalence of the disorder may underestimate the actual total disease burden. The condition …

Bipolar disorder is a chronic affective disorder that causes significant economic burden to
patients, families and society. It has a lifetime prevalence of approximately 1.3%. Bipolar …

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: To develop a cost model that estimates the total and per case lifetime cost of
bipolar disorder for 1998 incident cases in the US. Study design: Lifetime cost simulation …

BackgroundThe socio-economic impact of bipolar disorder in the UK is unknown. AimsTo
estimate the annual socioeconomic burden imposed by bipolar disorder on UK society …

Manic–depressive (bipolar) disorder is a severe, relapsing mental illness that shares
characterstics both with major depressive disorder and with serious mental illnesses such as …

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a mood disorder with subtypes characterized by episodes of mania,
hypomania, and/or depression. BD is associated with substantial economic burden, and the …

INTRODUCTION:: Bipolar disorder is a common illness characterized by recurrent episodes
of pathological disturbances of mood. The aim of this study was to estimate the annual cost …