title: Family history of suicide in affective disorder patients.
abstract: In a consecutive series of 137 affective disorder patients with a family history of suicide, bipolar disorder formed the biggest group. Of the 137 patients, 61 (44.5%) had made a total of 117 attempts at suicide. The patients who had attempted suicide, compared with those who had not, had a significantly earlier age of onset and longer duration of illness, and more of them were unmarried.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000235:genetics; D002170:Canada; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000235:genetics*; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D012847:Single Person; D012923:Social Class; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000453:epidemiology*