Healio (8/25, Gramigna) reports, “Lithium use among older adults was associated with increased risk for renal decline,” investigators concluded after using “linked health care databases from Ontario, Canada, to analyze 2007 to 2015 data of older adults with a mean age of 71 years.” The study team then “propensity-score matched 3,113 lithium users 1:1 to 3,113 valproate users and further examined those with higher or lower concentrations of serum lithium.” The findings of the “population-based cohort study” were published online Aug. 24 in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
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Joe Gramigna, Healio, August 25, 2020