Psychiatria pre prax 4/2016
Metabolic syndrome in bipolar disorder
Bipolar affective disorder is a chronic disease connected with a high occurence of cardiovascular and metabolic morbidity and mortality as well. Despite these findings, bipolar patients are not obtaining equal standard of medical care for their somatic diseases as general population. Monitoring of physical health by psychiatrists is therefore necessary.
Keywords: bipolar affective disorder, metabolic syndrome
