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    Lithium May Lower Osteoporosis Risk in Bipolar Disorder

    Bone, Muscles & Joints Disorders
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      Malkeet Singh last edited by

      People with bipolar disorder – particularly men – show a significantly increased risk of osteoporosis, compared with the general population, but treatment with lithium appears to offer a significant protective effect against the bone disease, according to results from the largest study of its kind.

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        Anjali 1 @Malkeet Singh last edited by

        @malkeet-singh For the retrospective cohort study, presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, and also published recently in JAMA Psychiatry, the authors reviewed data on 22,912 patients treated for bipolar disorder in Denmark between 1996 and 2019, and compared each patient with 5 age- and sex-matched controls, amounting to 114,560 individuals in the general population.

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