The Nearly Lost Art of Diagnostics, Where Bipolar Outcomes Are Best

Gary Milechman, MD, FACC (UCSF Cardiovascular Care and Prevention Center), explains how curiosity guides his differential diagnostics approach, which he shares in teaching the nearly lost art of diagnostics. Also, Adrian Desai Boström, PhD (Karolinksa Institute, Sweden), discuses the implications of his study findings, indicating that male adolescents living in areas where bipolar disorder is diagnosed more frequently are also associated with significantly fewer suicide deaths than in patients living in areas where bipolar disorder is less prevalent.

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Additional reading:

Andersson P, Jokinen J, Jarbin H, Lundberg J, Desai Boström AE. Association of Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis With Suicide Mortality Rates in Adolescents in Sweden. JAMA Psychiatry. 2023 May 24:e231390. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2023.1390. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37223908; PMCID: PMC10209824.

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