Authors
Konstantinos N Fountoulakis, Xenia Gonda, Melina Siamouli, Panagiotis Panagiotidis, Katerina Moutou, Ioannis Nimatoudis, Siegfried Kasper
Publication date
2019/4/3
Journal
International Journal of Psychiatry in Clinical Practice
Volume
23
Issue
2
Pages
90-98
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Description
Objective: Advanced parental age might constitute a risk factor for various disorders. We tested whether this concerns also mood disorder patients.
Methods: The study included 314 subjects (42 bipolar-BD patients; 21 manics and 21 depressives, 68 unipolar-UD, and 204 normal controls-NC). Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) and the calculation of the Relative Risk (RR) and the Odds Ratio (OR) were used for the analysis.
Results: Paternal age differed between NC and UD patients (29.42 ± 6.07 vs. 32.12 ± 5.54; p = .01) and manics (29.42 ± 6.07 vs. 35.00 ± 5.75; p = .001) and maternal age between NC and manics (25.46 ± 4.52 vs. 31.43 ± 4.75; p < .001) and manic and UD (31.43 ± 4.75 vs. 26.75 ± 6.03; p = .002). The RR and OR values suggested that advanced parental age constitutes a risk factor for the development of mood disorders.
Conclusions: In a non-dose dependent and …
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