Higher Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in Child-adolescent Patients with Bipolar Disorder.

Objective: Previous studies have indicated a convergent and bidirectional relationship between metabolic syndrome (MetS) and bipolar disorder (BD). As most of these studies focused mainly on adults diagnosed with BD, our study aims to investigate and characterize metabolic disturbances in child-adolescents diagnosed with BD.

Methods: We retrospectively examined the medical records of psychiatric hospitalizations with admitting diagnosis of BD in child-adolescents (age ＜ 18 years).

Cannabis use: A co-existing condition in first-episode bipolar mania patients.

Background: An association between first-episode presentation of bipolar mania and concurrent cannabis use disorder has been well established in the current literature (Bally et al., 2014, Baethge et al., 2008).