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Recurrence in affective disorder
— I. Case register study | | Author(s) | Lars Vedel Kessing, Per Kragh Andersen, Preben Bo Mortensen |
| Journal title | The British Journal of Psychiatry, vol 172, no 1, January 1998 |
| Pages | pp 23-28 |
| Keywords | Affective disorders ; Manic depression ; Admission [hospitals] ; Denmark. |
| Annotation | In recent years, studies of the risk of recurrence in affective disorder, such as manic depression, in relation to the number of prior episodes have given contradictory results. In this study, survival analysis was used to calculate the rate of recurrence after successive episodes in a case register study including all hospital admissions with primary affective disorder in Denmark during 1971-1993. A total of 20350 first-admission patients were discharged with a diagnosis of affective disorder, depressive or manic/cyclic type. Findings revealed that the rate of recurrence increased with the number of previous episodes in both unipolar and bipolar disorder. Initially, the two types of disorder followed different courses, but later in the course of the illness the rate of recurrence was the same for both disorders. The study concluded that the course of both types of affective disorder seems to be progressive in nature, despite the effect of treatment. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980112408 A |
| Classmark | ELA: ELC: LD:QKH: 76K |
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