The course of bipolar disorder differs significantly between sexes. Women more commonly than men experience:
a. bipolar I
b. earlier age of onset
c. predominant depression
d. predominant mania
C
Women more commonly than men experience predominant depression. Women are about twice as likely to be affected by unipolar depression as men. However, women are no more likely than men to have bipolar disorder. Some of the difference in rate between the two conditions is due to the increased frequency of unipolar disorder in women. Depressive disease in men is about evenly divided between unipolar and bipolar.
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