Lithium and suicide prevention in mood disorders and in the general population: A systematic review.
Bipolar disorder
Drinking Water
Lithium
Major depressive disorder
Recurrent depressive disorder
Schizoaffective disorder
Suicide
Journal
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
ISSN: 1873-7528
Titre abrégé: Neurosci Biobehav Rev
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 7806090
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
09 2020
09 2020
Historique:
received:
19
12
2019
revised:
06
04
2020
accepted:
10
06
2020
pubmed:
21
6
2020
medline:
22
6
2021
entrez:
21
6
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Suicide contributes to 1-4 % of deaths worldwide every year. We conducted a systematic review aimed at summarizing evidence on the use of lithium for the prevention of suicide risk both in mood disorders and in the general population. We followed the PRISMA methodology (keywords: "lithium", "suicide" AND "suicidal" on Pubmed, Cochrane CENTRAL, Clinicaltrial.gov, other databases). Inclusion criteria: lithium therapy in mood disorder or found in drinking water or scalp in the general population. Exclusion criteria: no lithium administration. From 918 screened references, 18 prospective (number of participants: 153786), 10 retrospective (number of participants: 61088) and 16 ecological studies (total sample: 2062) were included. Most of the observational studies reported a reduction in suicide in patients with mood disorders. All studies about lithium treatment's duration reported that long-term lithium give more benefits than short-term lithium in suicide risk The evidence seems to attribute an intrinsic anti-suicidal property of lithium, independent of its proven efficacy as a mood stabilizer.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32561344
pii: S0149-7634(20)30444-9
doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.06.017
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Antimanic Agents
0
Lithium
9FN79X2M3F
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
Systematic Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
142-153Informations de copyright
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