Sex differences in the age of onset of affective disorders

Studies of sex differences in first admission age for inpatients in Missouri public psychiatric hospitals were examined for the incidence of major affective illness and dysthymia. Patients diagnosed as schizophrenic were also studied to check for diagnostic comparability. Those males diagnosed as ha...

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Published in:Comprehensive psychiatry 1993-05, Vol.34 (3), p.187-191
Main Authors: Evenson, Richard C., Meier, Scott T., Hagan, Brian J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Age Factors
Biological and medical sciences
Depression
Female
Hospitalization
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Hospitals, State
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Missouri - epidemiology
Mood disorders
Mood Disorders - diagnosis
Mood Disorders - epidemiology
Mood Disorders - rehabilitation
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Sex Factors
United States - epidemiology
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Summary:Studies of sex differences in first admission age for inpatients in Missouri public psychiatric hospitals were examined for the incidence of major affective illness and dysthymia. Patients diagnosed as schizophrenic were also studied to check for diagnostic comparability. Those males diagnosed as having major affective illness were admitted 3.82 years earlier than females; the differential held up regardless of fifth-digit coding for psychosis. Males diagnosed as dysthymic were admitted 0.98 years earlier than females. Male schizophrenic patients were admitted an average of 7.75 years earlier than females, and the distribution was similar to that reported in a variety of cross-cultural studies.
ISSN:0010-440X
1532-8384
DOI:10.1016/0010-440X(93)90046-7