Occurrence of bipolar spectrum disorder and comorbidities in women with eating disorders

International Journal of Bipolar Disorders

Table 1 Demographic and clinical features of ED patients with and without BS comorbidity

Variable		ED without BS (N = 22)		ED with BS (N = 47)		P value
		Mean (SD)	CI (95%)	Mean (SD)	CI (95%)
Age (years)		27.59 (5.09)	25.34-29.85	27.98 (7.04)	25.91-30.05	0.995^a
Offspring		0.09 (0.29)	0.00-0.22	0.64 (1.13)	0.31-0.97	0.030^a
Level of education (years)		12.64 (4.17)	10.79-14.49	13.61 (3.13)	12.69-14.52	0.126^a
Family income (R$)^c		3,102.38 (4,196.26)	1,192.27-5,012.50	3,597.34-(2,497.63)	2,864.01-4,330.67	0.031^a
First-degree relative with BD		0.05 (0.21)	0.00-0.14	0.11 (0.37)	0.00-0.22	0.547^a
First-degree relative with depression		0.50 (0.74)	0.17-0.83	0.45 (0.54)	0.29-0.61	0.929^a
First-degree relative with other mental disorders		0.09 (0.29)	0.00-0.22	0.21 (0.59)	0.04-0.39	0.481^a
Relative with BD		0.09 (0.29)	0.00-0.22	0.13 (0.40)	0.01-0.24	0.825^a
Relative with depression		0.91 (1.44)	0.27-1.55	1.17 (1.32)	0.78-1.56	0.171^a
Relative with other mental disorders		0.32 (0.57)	0.07-0.57	0.38 (0.64)	0.19-0.57	0.712^a
		N	%	N	%
Married	No	20	90.9	30	63.8	0.019^b
Married	Yes	2	9.1	17	36.2	0.019^b
Ethnicity	Caucasian	7	31.8	28	59.6	0.186^b
	Black	1	4.5	2	4.3
	Asia	1	4.5	1	2.1
	Other	13	59.1	16	34.0
Occupation	Working	7	31.8	18	38.3	0.511^b
	Retired	3	13.6	7	14.9
	Never worked	4	18.2	3	6.4
	Unemployed	8	36.4	19	40.4

ED, eating disorder; BS, bipolar spectrum; CI, confidence interval. ^aMann-Whitney; ^bchi-square or Fisher's exact test; ^cBrazilian reais.