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Recurrence in affective disorder
— II. Effect of age and gender | | Author(s) | Lars Vedel Kessing |
| Journal title | The British Journal of Psychiatry, vol 172, no 1, January 1998 |
| Pages | pp 29-34 |
| Keywords | Affective disorders ; Manic depression ; Admission [hospitals] ; Older men ; Older women ; Denmark. |
| Annotation | The risk of recurrence in affective disorder, such as manic depression, has been found to increase with each new episode. However, it is unclear whether it is universal without regard to gender, age and type of disorder. In this study, survival analysis was used to estimate the risk of recurrence in a case-register study including all hospital admissions with primary affective disorder in Denmark from 1971-1993. In this period, 20350 first-admission patients had been discharged with a diagnosis of affective disorder, depressive or manic/cyclic type. Results revealed that the risk of recurrence increased with the number of previous episodes regardless of the combination of gender, age and type of disorder. Initially in the course of illness, women experienced greater risk of recurrence than men. The risk of recurrence after the first episode was increased for unipolar middle-aged and older women compared with the risk for younger women. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980112409 A |
| Classmark | ELA: ELC: LD:QKH: BC: BD: 76K |
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