title: [Prognostic factors in preventive therapy with lithium salts].
abstract: As a result of prophylactic therapy with lithium salts in 250 patients who were treated for approximately 4 years and who demonstrated distinct phasic affective disorders the authors established the following facts: factors of the nosological affinity of the affective psychoses, polarity in its development, the age of the patients and the duration of the therapy did not exert a significant influence on the results of prophylactic therapy with lithium, and therefore cannot be considered as prognostic factors.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008094:Lithium / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000188:drug therapy*; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D008094:Lithium
vernacular_title: Prognosticheskie faktory pri profilakticheskoĭ terapii soliami litiia.