An immunological age index in bipolar disorder: A confirmatory factor analysis of putative immunosenescence markers and associations with clinical characteristics.
Lucas B RizzoWalter SwardfagerPawan Kumar MauryaMaiara Zeni GraiffMariana PedriniElson AsevedoAna Cláudia CassinelliMoisés E BauerQuirino CordeiroJan ScottElisa BrietzkeHugo Cogo-MoreiraPublished in: International journal of methods in psychiatric research (2018)
In bipolar disorder type I, premature aging of the immune system could be reliably measured using an index that validated against chronological age, which was related to adverse metabolic effects of the disease course.