Vitamin B12, homocysteine, and folic acid in patients suffering from bipolar disorders: Relationship with suicide.
Paola MangiapaneManuel Glauco CarboneAlessandro AroneLucia MassaStefania PalermoWalter FlaminiElisabetta ParraBenedetto MoranaFlorinda MoranaGiovanni BertiniDonatella MarazzitiPublished in: The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (2022)
Our results underline the utility of assessing vitamin B12, homocysteine, and folic acid in patients with BD. Although other studies are necessary, the present findings that lower levels of vitamin B12 seem typical of patients with a family history of suicide independently from the phase of illness suggest that they might constitute a possible predictor of suicide.