Endocrine Abstracts

Lithium is used in psychiatric practice as maintenance therapy in bipolar disorder. It has a narrow therapeutic index with serious toxic potential. Lithium is associated with multiple endocrine and metabolic disturbances but data regarding the rates of these in individual patients is lacking. In a tertiary referral centre, all patients on lithium therapy from 2000 to 2014 were identified. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of lithium therapy on the development of e...