And we're fatter, too

More great news: women with BD had higher levels of fasting plasma insulin (FPI) and fasting plasma glucose (FPG), higher homeostatic assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) scores, and greater body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and hip circumference (HC) than control women.

So if you have bipolar disorder you're more likely to get diabetes and be overweight. But wait, aren't those two things often common side effects of drugs for mental illness? So how did they test for whether or not it was the drugs? Could we be just as susceptible as other people and then the drugs bring it on? Do women with bipolar disorder have higher rates of diabetes in their families, especially in untreated relatives? I wonder. So many questions. Sometimes I wish I were a researcher.