HCPlive (8/3, Walter) reports researchers have conducted a study in which they “analyzed data from the Global Aging & Geriatric Experiments in Bipolar Disorder Database…to assess older-age bipolar disorder associations among age, bipolar disorder [BD] symptoms, comorbidities, and functioning.” For the study, the team “identified harmonized, baseline, cross-sectional data from 19 international studies involving 1377 participants with a mean age of 60.8 years old.” The study revealed that “depressive symptom severity was strongly associated with worse functioning in older individuals, underscoring the need for effective treatments of BD depression in older people.” The study also revealed that “higher depressive and manic symptoms were associated with lower” Global Assessment of Functioning, “most strongly among the older participants.” The findings were published online July 27 in the journal Bipolar Disorders.
Related Links:
— “New Research Addresses Symptoms of Older-Age Bipolar Disorder “Kenny Walter, HCPlive, August 3, 2021