Conference paper
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES IN PATIENTS WITH BIPOLAR DISEASE: PRAGMATIC MANAGEMENT
Cátia Jesus
; Charles University in Prague, Third Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
Inês Jesus
; Charles University in Prague, Third Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
Mark Agius
; Clare College Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Abstract
Background: Bipolar disorder (BD), also known as manic-depressive illness, is a condition characterized by unusual shifts in
mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks. Bipolar disorder is known to be a chronic and disabling
disease associated with higher incidence of obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, dyslipidemias, hypertension and tobacco use
which all together are known risk factors for the development of Cardiovascular diseases. With this research we wish to collect
evidence to show how Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) affect Patients with Bipolar disease, the burden it can have in patients lives, to
understand how this problem has been assessed so far and present suggestions that may improve the health care of these patients.
Methods: Our study is a literature based research.
Conclusion: with our study we concluded that patients with BD are at higher risk of CVD and at an earlier age compared with
the general population. Also, there is a lack of proper monitoring and consideration of the cardiovascular risk factors in patients
with Bipolar disorder whether by primary care physicians or psychiatrists even though it plays a critical role in the general outcome
of this patients and also leads to increase in mortality and morbidity rates.
Keywords
bipolar disease; cardiovascular diseases
Hrčak ID:
264875
URI
Publication date:
30.8.2016.
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