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. 2012 Mar;200(3):210–215. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.110.081992

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical measures in participants with bipolar (I and II) and major depressive disorder with an epidsode of depression at intake

Major depressive
disorder
(n = 476)
Bipolar
disorder
(n = 335)
Age, mean (s.d.)
 At intake 39.5 (14.8) 36.3 (13.2)
 At onset
27.3 (13.4)
22.5 (9.3)
Years of follow-up, mean (s.d.)
15.8 (8.6)
18.0 (8.1)
Anxiety measures, mean (s.d.)
 Worrying 4.2 (1.3) 4.0 (1.4)
 Phobic concerns 2.1 (1.3) 2.2 (1.4)
 Obsessions/compulsions 1.5 (0.9) 1.6 (1.1)
 Psychic anxiety 3.8 (1.4) 3.8 (1.5)
 Somatic anxiety 3.2 (1.6) 3.0 (1.5)
 Depersonalisation 1.7 (1.3) 1.9 (1.5)
 Somatic preoccupation
2.1 (1.5)
2.0 (1.4)
Gender, female: n (%)
283 (59.6)
204 (60.7)
Panic attacks, n (%)
155 (32.6)
99 (29.5)
Lifetime diagnosis, anxiety disorder: n (%)
 Panic 24 (5.1) 16 (4.8)
 Generalised anxiety disorder 33 (6.9) 19 (5.7)
 Obsessive–compulsive disorder 9 (1.9) 9 (2.7)
 Phobic disorder 36 (7.6) 20 (6.0)
 Any anxiety disorder
80 (16.8)
50 (14.9)
Lifetime diagnoses, other: n (%)
 Antisocial personality 11 (2.3) 6 (1.8)
 Alcoholism 128 (26.9) 90 (26.8)
 Drug dependence 30 (6.3) 33 (9.8)