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Descriptive data on the sample

identified 104 major or minor bipolar (BP) subjects and 110 major or minor unipolar depressives (UP). The respective weighted cumulative incidence rates including the last interview (which are statistical estimates of the lower bound of population prevalence) were 15.4% (BP) and 14.8% (UP). There was no significant gender difference: 60.6% of BP (weighted 62.6%) and 60.0% of UP (weighted 61.4%) were women.
Thirty-eight BP subjects were chronic and 66 acute; among UP there were 43 chronic and 67 acute.
The 38 chronic BP subjects included 25 with MDE (67%), 14 of whom also met criteria for dysthymia. In all, 22 (58%) of the 38 chronic BP cases suffered from dysthymia. The remaining five non-dysthymic chronic cases suffered from recurrent brief depression (N = 4) and minor depression (N = 1).
The 43 chronic UP subjects consisted of 34 with MDE (79.1%), 21 of whom were also dysthymics. In all, 27 subjects (62.8%) with chronic UP were diagnosed as dysthymics. Of the remaining three non-dysthymic chronic UP cases, two suffered from recurrent brief depression and 1 from minor depression.

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