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Allied Journal of Medical Research

Volume 2

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CANCER THERAPY AND ONCOLOGY

NEUROLOGY AND BRAIN DISORDERS

International Conference on

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ARE INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES

ASSOCIATED WITH MOOD SYMPTOMS

AMONG PATIENTS WITH BIPOLAR

DISORDER?

Esther Ching-Lan Lin

National Cheng Kung University and Hospital, Taiwan

ipolar disorder (BD) is a severe mental illness characterized by chronic

course, pervasive instability, and higher recurrence and suicide

rate. Evidence supports the associations of instable social rhythm and

increased inflammatory cytokines and symptom severity in BD. This

cross-sectional study examined the relationships among inflammatory

cytokines and mood symptoms. One-hundred and twenty-one individuals

with a DSM-IV diagnosis of BD were recruited from the psychiatric ward

and outpatient department of a southern medical center in Taiwan. Most

participants were female, unmarried, unemployed, diagnosed as bipolar

II, and outpatients. There were no significant associations between

inflammatory cytokines and mood symptoms. Relative lower level of

inflammatory cytokines in these stabilized patients cannot reflect from

different mood states. Future studies should compare the inflammatory

cytokines of patients who were at different mood states.

Esther Ching-Lan Lin is an Associate Profes-

sor in the Department of Nursing, College of

Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, and

adjunct Head Nurse of the Department of Psy-

chiatry, National Cheng Kung University Hos-

pital, Tainan, Taiwan. She has been a nurse, a

manager, a teacher, and an advisor for 18 years.

After completing her PhD at National Taiwan

University. She continued her academic ca-

reer in nursing education and has focused on

improving the quality of care for patients with

severe mental illness. She has published 30 pa-

pers in English-language and Chinese-language

journals—most recently on developing and eval-

uating psychosocial treatments for patients

with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder—and

has been an editorial board member for the past

3 years of a national nursing journal in Taiwan.

chinglanlin1112@gmail.com

BIOGRAPHY

Esther Ching-Lan Lin, Allied J Med Res 2018, Volume 2