Objectives The association of bipolar disorder with early and excessive cardiovascular
disease was identified over a century ago. Nonetheless, the vascular‐bipolar link remains …

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its component factors, obesity, hypertension, dyslipidaemia
and insulin resistance, have shown a bidirectional relationship with the prevalence and …

BackgroundIndividuals with bipolar disorder (BD) have a higher prevalence of obesity and
metabolic syndrome (MetS) compared with the general population. Obesity and MetS are …

Individuals with bipolar disorders (BD) frequently suffer from obesity, which is often
associated with neurostructural alterations. Yet, the effects of obesity on brain structure in BD …

Background Bipolar disorder (BD) and aging appear to be associated with inflammatory
activation. Inflammatory processes might affect hippocampal function, neurogenesis, and …

Background: Obesity is highly prevalent and disabling, especially in individuals with severe
mental illness including bipolar disorders (BD). The brain is a target organ for both obesity …

Introduction The effects of body mass index (BMI) on the core symptoms of bipolar disorder
(BD) and its implications for disease trajectory are largely unexplored. Objective To examine …

Objective Abnormal blood lipid levels are common in bipolar disorder (BD) and correlate
with mood symptoms and neurocognition. However, studies have not examined the lipid …

Studies have explored brain structural abnormalities in patients with primary insomnia (PI).
However, most of them are based on volumetric measures, in a specific region of interest …

Objective Building on prior findings in adults, this study investigated regional cerebral blood
flow (CBF) in relation to DSM-5 criterion A symptoms of depression and mania in youth with …