Table 3.
Number of antidepressant prescriptions for patients with bipolar disorder
| Antidepressants | Number and proportion of patients with each mood status | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Class | Depressive (n = 1098) | Mixed features (n = 261) | Remission (n = 1116) | Manic (n = 230) | Total (n = 2705) | |||||
| Duloxetine | SNRI | 138 | 13% | 16 | 6% | 57 | 5% | 7 | 3% | 218 | 8% |
| Mirtazapine | NaSSA | 105 | 10% | 11 | 4% | 65 | 6% | 7 | 3% | 188 | 7% |
| Escitalopram | SSRI | 101 | 9% | 15 | 6% | 37 | 3% | 8 | 3% | 161 | 6% |
| Trazodone | SARI | 72 | 7% | 16 | 6% | 38 | 3% | 7 | 3% | 133 | 5% |
| Paroxetine | SSRI | 54 | 5% | 14 | 5% | 49 | 4% | 4 | 2% | 121 | 4% |
| Fluvoxamine | SSRI | 40 | 4% | 9 | 3% | 45 | 4% | 7 | 3% | 101 | 4% |
| Sertraline | SSRI | 53 | 5% | 10 | 4% | 34 | 3% | 3 | 1% | 100 | 4% |
| Amoxapine | TCA | 40 | 4% | 8 | 3% | 35 | 3% | 1 | 0% | 84 | 3% |
| Mianserin | TeCA | 20 | 2% | 6 | 2% | 23 | 2% | 3 | 1% | 52 | 2% |
| Milnacipran | SNRI | 25 | 2% | 4 | 2% | 22 | 2% | 0 | 0% | 51 | 2% |
| Others | 101 | 9% | 13 | 5% | 62 | 6% | 7 | 3% | 183 | 7% | |