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Uric acid levels among Tunisian patients with bipolar disorder during different phases of illness
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2022
Abstract
Bipolar disorder is a recurrent chronic disorder characterised by fluctuation of mood state. Recent studies focused on the involvement of adenosine and the purinergic system in the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder.
We aimed to investigate the difference in (SUA) levels between different phases of relapse and remission period.
For this aim a prospective study was conducted during six months at Razi psychiatric Hospital in Tunisia with patients diagnosed with BD The socio-demographic, clinical data were gathered from patient and a psychometric assessment using YMRS and Beck scale was employed. Uric acid level was studied during relapse and remission period.
Among 30 consentent patients included in the study : 65.7% were women, The age of the participants varied between 22 and 65 years old. Uric acid level at the relapse varied between 328 and 499 mmol/L and level of controlled value at the remission period which is eight weeks under treatment varied between 137 and 307 mmol/L. Patients under antipsychotic treatment were 55.9% the other were under lithium or mood stabilizer. There is no significant difference between patients with bipolar disorder type I or II neither for the molecule chosen for treatment (p<0.05).
Bipolar disorder is a chronic psychiatric disease which needs to be regulary controlled. Uric acid levels were higher in manic or depressive phases as compared with euthymia phase. Uric acid could be used as a trait marker in bipolar disorder and help psychiatrist to monitor patients and to adjust treatment in order to avoid relapsing.
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- European Psychiatry , Volume 65 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 30th European Congress of Psychiatry , June 2022 , pp. S412
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