Sex Differences in the Age of Onset of Bipolar Affective Illness
- 1 June 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 156 (6) , 842-845
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.156.6.842
Abstract
Data from a UK national sample showed differences between the sexes in age-specific inception rates for mania. Women had a higher inception rate than men during the middle years. The cumulative admission rates were nearly equal between the sexes.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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