Tobacco use, either on its own or coupled with alcohol use disorder or cannabis use disorder, was a significant risk factor for recurrent suicide attempts in individuals with bipolar disorder.
Youth who are readmitted for inpatient psychiatric care share such factors as foster care, comorbid conditions, and prior psychiatric hospitalizations.
Genetic liability for major depression increases the risk for suicide attempts in major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
Aripiprazole augmentation to lithium carbonate seemed to be the best option in treatment-resistant patients with comorbid bipolar disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and bipolar disorder are at greater risk for suicide.
Women have slightly longer inpatient hospitalizations for bipolar disorder-related symptoms, although factors such as psychotropic treatment and comorbid personality disorders mitigate the results.
Hyperthymic and cyclothymic temperaments and an elevated number of recent life events were associated with both patients with bipolar disorder and their healthy siblings.
Individuals with pediatric-onset bipolar disorder fare better than individuals diagnosed at a later age with the disorder, and bipolar disorder in general is associated with better outcomes than schizophrenia.
Even during full or partial remission, mood instability in bipolar disorder is associated with decreased quality of life and increased stress, according to self-report.
There is variability in data relating to the safety of lithium during breastfeeding.
