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Bipolar disorder

What research knows about bipolar disorder comes from people who live with it. Here is how many do, what records they usually have, and what sharing yours is worth.

Living with it

36 million

People living with bipolar disorder worldwide, 2023

source

New diagnoses

One every 19 seconds

1.6 million a year, worldwide, ages 15 to 49

source

How rare

Common

about 45 in 10,000 people

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What patients usually have

The records behind bipolar disorder

  • Annual physical health check blood tests (HbA1c or fasting glucose, lipid profile, liver, renal and thyroid function)

    Repeated lab results

    at least annually

    guideline
  • Annual review of treatment and care including medication

    Doctor's lettersMedication history

    at least annually

    guideline
  • Plasma lithium level

    Repeated lab results

    1 week after starting and after every dose change, then weekly until stable

    guideline

What sharing it is worth

$63

per licence for a complete story and one year of these records, $63 to $737

Value your own data
  • Your health story$23how
  • Repeated lab resultsx2$0.42how
  • Doctor's lettersx1$3.49how
  • Richness premium (3 kinds of data linked)x2.33how

A benchmark from published prices, not a promise: contributors earn a share each time a licence includes their data. How the benchmark works · What health data sells for

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