Manic/Hypomanic Symptom Burden and Cardiovascular Mortality in Bipolar Disorder
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Bipolar disorder: disease burden.
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychosomatic Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0033-3174
DOI: 10.1097/psy.0b013e3181acee26