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To calculate remaining life expectancy for bipolar disorder patients at various ages, addressing previous misleading reports.

Life expectancy in bipolar disorder

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Randomized trial calculates remaining life expectancy in bipolar disorder patients, indicating significant life-year loss.

To calculate remaining life expectancy for bipolar disorder patients at various ages, addressing previous misleading reports.
Analyzed nationwide registers of inpatient and outpatient contacts to psychiatric hospitals in Denmark from 1970 to 2012.
Calculated remaining life expectancy for ages 15, 25, 35, 45, and 75 for individuals alive in 2000.
For males aged 25 to 45, remaining life expectancy decreased by 12.0-8.7 years.
For females aged 25 to 45, remaining life expectancy decreased by 10.6-8.3 years.
The gap in life expectancy between bipolar disorder patients and the general population decreases with age, starting in early to mid-adulthood.

Kessing et al. (2015) studied this question.

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