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Project properties
| Title | Medical comorbidity in patients with bipolar disorder |
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| Keywords | bipolar disorder metabolic syndrome medical comorbidity |
| Researchers |
M. Chrispijn |
| Type of project | Stage Wetenschap / Researchproject |
| Nature of the research | Retrospective cohort research |
| Fields of study | general internal medicine psychiatry diabetes |
| Background / introduction |
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| Patients with bipolar disorder have a shorter life expectancy than healthy controls. This largely due to cardiovascular disease, which seems to be more prevalent in this patient group. |
| Research question / problem definition |
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| What is the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in patients with bipolair disorder in comparison with healthy controls? Can predictive factors be identified? |
| Workplan |
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| Writing a research and analysis plan for obtaining data from a large Dutch database. Analysing data together with researchers connected to the database. If interested you can help publishing the article. |
| References |
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1. Erlangsen A, Andersen PK, Toender A, Laursen TM, Nordentoft M, Canudas-Romo V. Cause-specific life-years lost in people with mental disorders: a nationwide, register-based cohort study. Lancet Psychiatry. 2017;4:937–45. 2. Hjorthøj C, Stürup AE, McGrath JJ, Nordentoft M. Years of potential life lost and life expectancy in schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The lancet Psychiatry [Internet]. 2017 [cited 2019 Nov 17];4(4):295–301. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28237639 3. Kessing LV, Vradi E, Andersen PK. Life expectancy in bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disord. 2015 Aug 1;17(5):543–8. 4. Forty L, Ulanova A, Jones L, Jones I, Gordon-Smith K, Fraser C, et al. Comorbid medical illness in bipolar disorder. Br J Psychiatry [Internet]. 2014 Dec [cited 2019 Nov 16];205(6):465–72. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25359927 |
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