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  • Title: [First clinical episode of bipolar disorders: a study within a population of bipolar I and bipolar II French patients].
    Author: Canceil O, Bouzid R, Olíe JP, Lôo H, Poirier MF.
    Journal: Encephale; 1999; 25(6):523-7. PubMed ID: 10668594.
    Abstract:
    Clinical symptoms of bipolar disorders onset act as a prognostic risk-factor. Discrepancies of data are related with geographical or cultural conditions. Within a patient population of bipolar (ICD 10) in and out patients of a psychiatric department, manic or hypomanic disorders initiate the space disease in 33% of the cases theses features are similar within the western psychiatric population. In a maghrebian population this proportion reaches 50%. A percentage of 65% of bipolar 1 patients was found within our sample. Sex ratio is 1 for bipolar 1, when, for bipolar 2 disorders sex-ratio was superior to 1, in favor of females. Mean age of the first episode of the disease was younger for patients with a familial history of the disease.
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