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Association of lithium versus valproate initiation with all-cause mortality and incident dementia: a multinational real-world cohort study

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Key takeaways

This study compared two mood-stabilizing drugs to see if they affect the risk of dementia or death. It tracked patients across many countries. There is no summary text to read, so we do not have the results yet.

Who did this work

Hou D (Department of Medical Education, Taichung Veterans General Hospital , ,) · Wu Y (Department of Psychiatry, Taichung Veterans General Hospital , ,) · Wu M (Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital , ,) · Huang S (College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University , ,) · Hou P (Department of Psychiatry, Taichung Veterans General Hospital , ,)

Source

Article · Europe PMC, CKD · 2026-10-07
https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/PMC13638382