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- Title
2834 – Comparison of clinical and the sociodemographic characteristics of bipolar patients according to the presence of a history of depressive episode.
- Authors
Erdem, M.; Akarsu, S.; ünlü, A.G.; Alper, M.; Karaman, D.; Ak, M.
- Abstract
Introduction: The aim of this study was to compare the sociodemographic and clinic characteristics of patients with bipolar disorder type I with and without history of depressive episode. Method: In this study the data of 108 bipolar type I patients who were admitted to psychiatry clinic of a university hospital due to manic episode between 2007–2009 were examined. Results: According to these data, 16 of 108 bipolar disorder type I patients (14.8%) had inhabited at least 4 manic episodes throughout their lives and there was no history of depressive episode although the disease had continued at least 4 years. With and without a history of depressive episode of bipolar type I patients have not been identified differ in terms of sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, but patients not having a history of depressive episode during their lifetime was found to be more than the number of hospitalizations. Conclusion: Current information seem to be not sufficient to define unipolar mania as a separate nosological class. Largescale, prospective designs and illuminating the pathophysiology and etiology studies needs to be done in this issue.
- Subjects
BIPOLAR disorder; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; MENTAL depression; HOSPITAL care; PATHOLOGICAL physiology
- Publication
European Psychiatry, 2013, Vol 28, p1
- ISSN
0924-9338
- Publication type
Abstract
- DOI
10.1016/S0924-9338(13)77418-2