Healio (4/23, Demko) reports, “Implementing prevention programs and other interventions during and after pregnancy may decrease the number and severity of manic episodes in women at high risk for bipolar disorder, according to a personal view published” online April 9 in The Lancet Psychiatry. Verinder Sharma, MBBS, of the departments of psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology at Western University, and the Parkwood Institute, London, Ontario, Canada, and colleagues wrote, “The postpartum period is ideally suited for primary and secondary prevention of bipolar disorder.” They added, “Women are routinely under the care of health professionals during and after pregnancy. Some of the putative risk factors of bipolar disorder such as sleep loss, substance use, and use of antidepressants or psychostimulants can be easily targeted.”
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— “Early intervention key for postpartum women at risk for bipolar disorder, “Savannah Demko, Healio, April 23, 2019