September 1, 2018, AARHUS, Denmark—People who have anxiety disorders or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) when they’re younger are much more likely to develop bipolar disorder when they’re older, a new study has found.
Danish and Canadian researchers looked at more than two million people born between 1955 and 1991 and found that just over two per cent of people with no prior diagnosis of ADHD or anxiety developed bipolar disorder.
But the rate of bipolar disorder climbed to almost 24 percent for those with a prior diagnosis of ADHD and to 26 per cent for those with a prior diagnosis of anxiety. The bipolar incidence rate soared to 66 per cent for those with a prior diagnosis of both anxiety and ADHD.
The study, which appeared in the British Journal of Psychiatry, was entitled “Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and anxiety disorders as precursors of bipolar disorder onset in adulthood.”
Source: Cambridge University Press
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