[First clinical episode of bipolar disorders: a study within a population of bipolar I and bipolar II French patients].
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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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017668:Age of Onset; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017678:Sex Distribution; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires