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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1992; 15(4):337-346

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1992.15.4.337

Original Article

The Effects of Lithium Treatment on the Serum Calcium, Ionized Calcium & Phosphate in Bipolar Disorder

Haing Won Woo

Copyright ⓒ 1992. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of lithium treatment on the serum total calcium, ionized calcium and phosphate in bipolar disorder.

The subjects were 20 patients. The total calcium, ionized calcium and serum phosphate were measured before and after lithium treatment, and the values were statistically analyzed.

The results are summarized as follows:

1) Serum total calcium level was significantly increased after lithium treatment(p<0.01).

2) Ionized calcium level was significantly increased after lithium treatment(p<0.05).

3) Phosphate level was significantly increased after lithium treatment(p<0.05).