Early identification of bipolar disorder among young adults - a 22-year community birth cohort.
Francisco Diego Rabelo-da-PonteJ G FeitenBenson MwangiFernando Celso Lopes Fernandes de BarrosF C WehrmeisterA M MenezesFlavio KapczinskiIves Cavalcante PassosM KunzPublished in: Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica (2020)
We developed a risk calculator for BD incorporating both demographic and clinical variables from a 22-year birth cohort. Our findings support previous studies in high-risk samples showing the significance of suicide risk and generalized anxiety disorder prior to the onset of BD, and highlight the role of social factors and adverse life events.