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Socio-economic Functioning in Patients with Bipolar Disorder and Their Unaffected Siblings – Results from a Nation-wide Population-based Longitudinal Study by Kimie Stefanie Ormstrup Sletved; Simon Christoffer Ziersen; Per Kragh Andersen; Maj Vinberg; Lars Vedel Kessing is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Abstract ## Background Few studies have reported real-life data on socio-economic functioning in patients with bipolar disorder and their unaffected first-degree relatives. ## Methods We used Danish nation-wide population-based longitudinal register linkage to investigate socio-economic functioning in 19 955 patients with bipolar disorder, their 13 923 siblings and 20 sex, age and calendar-matched control individuals from the general population. Follow-up was from 1995 to 2017. ## Results Patients with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder had lower odds of having achieved the highest educational level [OR 0.75 (95% confidence interval (CI) 0.73–0.77)], being employed [OR 0.16 (95% CI 0.159–0.168)], having achieved the 80% highest quartile of income [OR 0.33 (95% CI 0.32–0.35)], cohabitating [OR 0.44 (95% CI 0.43–0.46)] and being married [OR 0.54 (95% CI 0.52–0.55)] at first contact to hospital psychiatry as inpatient or outpatient compared with control individuals from the general population. Similarly, siblings to patients with bipolar disorder had a lower functioning within all five socio-economic areas than control individuals. Furthermore, patients and partly siblings showed subs
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- Author
- Kimie Stefanie Ormstrup Sletved; Simon Christoffer Ziersen; Per Kragh Andersen; Maj Vinberg; Lars Vedel Kessing
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Social Sciences)