Sentences with phrase «shorter than that of the general population»

People with these illnesses live with depressive or manic symptoms for about 50 per cent of the time, experience a decreased quality of life and have an expected life span of 10 - 15 years shorter than that of the general population.

Not exact matches

Cook adds that the short form of the gene is only one factor in the disorder, as it occurs in 16 % of the general population, while less than 0.1 % is afflicted with autism.

Episodes of shorter duration (between 1 and 3 days) during which young people experience manic symptoms are certainly much more common than classical (hypo --RRB- mania in general population samples.3 In addition, evidence from longitudinal clinical studies suggests that up to 40 % of people who experience such shorter episodes (often termed BD - not otherwise specified, BD - NOS) may go on to develop classical (4 — 7 days) BD.9 However, more evidence is required to decide whether these short - lived episodes of mania - like symptoms are aetiologically linked with BD.