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Table 2 Demographic and clinical features: comparison between patients aged > or < 65 years

From: Bipolar disorder in late life: clinical characteristics in a sample of older adults admitted for manic episode

 

Pts aged ≥ 65

(N = 20)

Pts aged < 65

(N = 20)

  
 

Mean

Sd

Mean

Sd

T/z

p

Age at onset

48.9

23.6

25.6

12.0

3.9

0.0004

 

N

%

N

%

χ2

p

Irritability

12

60

12

60

0

1

Delusions

12

60.0

14

70.0

0.44

0.51

Hallucinations

6

30.0

1

5.0

4.33

0.09*

Family history for mood disorders (two missing

values in both groups)

6

33.3

12

66.7

4.0

0.05

  1. * two-tailed Fisher's exact test