1. Reduced Fertility and Fecundity among Patients with Bipolar I Disorder and Schizophrenia in Egypt
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Vishwajit L. Nimgaonkar, Nahed E. Ibrahim, Hader Mansour, Warda Fathi, Joel Wood, Kareem Kandil, Hala Salah, Hanan Elsayed, Wafaa El-Bahaei, Mohamed Elhadidy, Mai Elassy, Ibtihal Ibrahim, Hala El-Boraie, Ahmed Eissa, Salwa Tobar, and Amal Yassin
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Multivariate analysis ,Bipolar I disorder ,Bipolar disorder ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Fertility ,Marital Fertility ,environment and public health ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Psychiatry ,Biological Psychiatry ,media_common ,business.industry ,Reproduction ,fungi ,Fecundity ,medicine.disease ,030227 psychiatry ,3. Good health ,enzymes and coenzymes (carbohydrates) ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Reduced fertility ,Schizophrenia ,Original Article ,biological phenomena, cell phenomena, and immunity ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery - Abstract
ObjectiveaaTo evaluate reproduction among patients with bipolar I disorder (BP1) or schizophrenia (SZ) in Egypt. MethodsaaBP1 patients (n=113) were compared with community based, demographically balanced controls (n=124) and SZ patients (n=79, DSM-IV). All participants were evaluated using structured interviews and corroborative data were obtained from relatives. Standard indices of procreation were included in multivariate analyses that incorporated key demographic variables. ResultsaaControl individuals were significantly more likely to have children than BP1 or SZ patients (controls 46.8%, BP1 15.9%, SZ 17.7%), but the BP1-SZ differences were non-significant. The average number of children for BP1 patients (0.37 ±0.9) and SZ patients (0.38±0.9) was significantly lower than for controls (1.04 ±1.48) (BP1 vs controls, p
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- 2011
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