ArticleEuropean archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience2013
Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in patients with borderline personality disorder: results from a cross-sectional study.
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- Trends in Depression Among Hospitalized Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in Spain (2017-2023): A Population-Based Analysis with a Focus on Sex Differences and In-Hospital Outcomes.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
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- Correlations between personality traits, personality disorders, and immunometabolic markers.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Shared and unique characteristics of metabolic syndrome in psychotic disorders: a review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Review
- [Mental disorders and diabetes mellitus (Update 2023)].Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2023Article
- The societal cost of treatment-seeking patients with borderline personality disorder in Germany.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2022Article
- The State of Overmedication in Borderline Personality Disorder: Interpersonal and Structural Factors.Current treatment options in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Homocysteine as a potential indicator of endothelial dysfunction and cardiovascular risk in female patients with borderline personality disorder.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2022Article
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- Emotion Regulation, Physical Diseases, and Borderline Personality Disorders: Conceptual and Clinical Considerations.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Borderline personality disorder traits associate with midlife cardiometabolic risk.Personality disorders · 2020Article
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Abstract
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is an important risk factor for the development of type-2 diabetes and coronary artery disease. We aimed to compare the MetS prevalence in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) with comparison subjects followed in primary care from a similar region. One hundred and thirty-five BPD patients according to DSM-IV diagnostic criteria were compared to 1009 subjects from primary care. We used the American Heart Association/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute criteria to determine the rate of MetS. The age-standardized prevalence of MetS was more than double in patients with BPD compared to comparison subjects (23.3 vs. 10.6 %, p < 0.05). Regarding individual MetS criteria, hyperglycemia was significantly more prevalent in both genders (p < 0.05). Abdominal obesity (p < 0.05) and hypertriglyceridemia (p < 0.05) were significantly higher only in women with BPD. Within BPD patients, an increased rate of MetS was associated with higher BMI (p = 0.004), age (p = 0.03), treatment with second-generation antipsychotics (quetiapine, olanzapine and clozapine; p = 0.032), dysthymia (p = 0.031), panic disorder (p = 0.032), benzodiazepine dependency (p = 0.015) and binge eating disorder p = 0.02). Our results demonstrate an increased MetS rate, dysregulated glucose and lipid metabolism in patients with BPD. Cardiometabolic monitoring and careful screening for physical health conditions among people with BPD is warranted.
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