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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Psychiatr Res. 2012 Nov 23;47(2):252–258. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2012.10.015

Table 1.

Sample Description: Overall Group

Mean ± SD or %
Number of patients 80

Age (years) 46.4 ± 14.0a

Gender (% female) 63.7

Race/ethnicity (%)
Asian 11.3
Black 1.3
Hispanic 5.0
White 80.0
Other/unspecified 2.5

Marital status (%)
Single 28.7
Married 55.0
Divorced/separated 16.3

Education* (%)
High school or less 5.1
Some college 30.8a, b
College degree 32.1a
Graduate degree 32.1b

Employment (%)
Full-time 40.0
Part-time 7.5
Unemployed/student/homemaker 35.0
Disabled 12.5
Retired 5.0

Diagnosis (%)
Bipolar I Disorder 53.8
Bipolar II Disorder 41.3
Bipolar Disorder NOS 5.0

Lifetime Comorbidity* (%)
Any psychiatric disorder 65.8
Any anxiety disorder 50.6
Post-traumatic stress disorder ** 11.7
Alcohol use disorder 19.0
Substance use disorder 20.3
Personality disorder 3.8a, c
Eating disorder 17.7

Clinical Characteristics
Onset age (years) * 19.8 ± 9.4a
Illness duration (years) * 26.8 ± 15.0a, b
Psychosis (lifetime)* (%) 46.8
Psychiatric Hospitalization* (lifetime) (%) 59.0
Rapid cycling (lifetime)* (%) 46.8
Rapid cycling (prior year) (%) 2.5
Visit frequency (prior year) (days) 58 ± 38
Number of psychotropic medications (prior year) 3.7 ± 1.9
MPY-CGI-BP-OS score (prior year) 3.1 ± 0.9
Syndromal mood episode (prior year) (%) 51.2
Syndromal/subsyndromal mood symptoms (at enrollment) (%) 25.0
*

Data missing for one patient.

**

Data missing for 3 patients.

a

p < 0.05 CTQ-sexual versus no CTQ-sexual;

b

p < 0.05 CTQ-physical versus no CTQ-physical;

c

p < 0.05 BDNF met allele carriers versus non-met allele carriers.