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A Cross-National Epidemiological Study of Mania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. P. Leff ,
Margit Fischer  and
A. Bertelsen
J. P. Leff
Affiliation:
MRC Social Psychiatry Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, S.E.5
Margit Fischer
Affiliation:
Consultant, Aarhus Psychiatric Hospital
A. Bertelsen
Affiliation:
University of Aarhus
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Summary

An epidemiological study of the first admission rate for mania was carried out in London and Aarhus. The case registers in these two centres were used to conduct a retrospective study of case notes covering several years, and a screening procedure was used for the prospective collection of new cases over the course of one year. The annual incidence of mania was found to be virtually identical in both centres. The retrospective study gave a figure of 2.6 per 100,000 population in both Aarhus and London. But the London sample was found to contain 45 per cent of immigrants in contrast to the Aarhus sample in which only a negligible proportion were born outside Denmark. Male West Indians, in particular, were over-represented in the London sample.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 129 , Issue 5 , November 1976 , pp. 428 - 437
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1976 

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