Twenty-year medication use trends in first-episode bipolar disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To study the medication use patterns in patients newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder (BD) in Finland during the past 20 years.

Methods

All persons diagnosed with BD between 1996 and 2018, aged 16-65 years, with no previous BD diagnosis were identified from nationwide Finnish registers (N = 26,395). The point prevalences of medication use were observed up until 5 years after the first diagnosis. Five sub-cohorts according to calendar year of first diagnosis were also formed and the prevalence of medication use was compared between sub-cohorts 3 months after diagnosis. Medication data were modeled with the PRE2DUP-method using dispensing data.

Results

The prevalence of overall medication use declined during the 5-year follow-up period in the total cohort. T

SUBMITTER: Poranen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9828455 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature