Bipolar Disorder Cases Rising in US

More than four percent of the population in the United States suffers from bi-polar disorder, almost twice the global average, according to a recent survey conducted by National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda.

Around 2.4 percent of the global population suffers from the psychiatric disorder with India having the least number of patients at 0.1 percent.

More than 61,000 adults from a number of countries such as United States, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Bulgaria, Romania, China, India, Japan, Lebanon, and New Zealand.

"Bipolar disorder, people get manic and then swing to depression, is responsible for the loss of more disability-adjusted life-years than all forms of cancer or major neurologic conditions such as epilepsy and Alzheimer disease, primarily because of its early onset and chronicity across the life span", the researchers wrote in their study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.


Source: Medindia