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Personality Disorders in Alcohol-Dependent Individuals: Relationship with Alcohol Dependence Severity [PDF]
European Addiction Research, 2009 The rate of axis II disorders in alcohol-dependent individuals is suggested to be high. The aim of this investigation is to assess the rate of DSM-IV axis II diagnoses in alcohol-dependent inpatients and their correlation with clinical characteristics of alcohol dependence (AD).
Preuss, Ulrich W. +7 more
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Kerala Journal of Psychiatry, 2023 Background: Caring for people with severe mental and medical illness adversely affects their natural caregivers, which is measured as caregiver burden (CGB).
Jithin T Joseph +3 more
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The severity of alcohol withdrawal is not age dependent [PDF]
Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2001 Age has been considered to contribute to the severity of the alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS). To evaluate the relationship between age and the severity of the AWS, we examined 723 alcoholics [518 males, 205 females, mean age (+/- SD): 42.8 +/- 10.5 years, mean duration of alcohol dependence: 11.0 +/- 8.0 years] consecutively referred to a unit for ...
T, Wetterling +3 more
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Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2023 Background: Excessive alcohol use leads to a spectrum of liver disease. While physicians treat liver disease, the cause, i.e. alcohol, often remains untreated.
CS Bharath +4 more
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SEVERE ALCOHOL-INDUCED LIVER DISEASE AND THE ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE SYNDROME [PDF]
Alcohol and Alcoholism, 2006 To examine the hypothesis that patients who present in the UK to detoxification services differ from patients who present with severe alcohol-induced liver disease (ALD) with respect to severity of dependence on alcohol and other features of their drinking history.Levels of alcohol dependence were assessed in 34 patients with severe ALD, all of whom ...
Smith, S. +5 more
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Association of CHRM2 polymorphisms with severity of alcohol dependence [PDF]
Genes, Brain and Behavior, 2010 The cholinergic muscarinic 2 receptor (CHRM2) gene has been considered a candidate gene for the alcohol dependence in that it might underpin certain risk factors for this condition. This study examined variations in the CHRM2 between the patients with alcohol dependence and population controls in Korean and explored the associations between CHRM2 ...
M H, Jung +8 more
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Severity of alcohol dependence in patients with alcoholic liver disease. [PDF]
BMJ, 1983 To determine the severity of dependence on alcohol in patients with alcoholic liver disease the severity of alcohol dependence questionnaire was administered to 193 patients with various types of alcoholic liver disease established histologically, in whom a detailed history of lifetime alcohol consumption was also obtained.
A D, Wodak +4 more
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Some factors affecting on the severity of Acute Psychoses in Alcohol Withdrawal
European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Alcohol withdrawal delirium is severe complication of alcohol withdrawal leading to high mortality. Early identification of severe course of psychosis and complications threatening the patient’s life is the most important problem in the ...
V. Kuzminov
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Kerala Journal of Psychiatry, 2022 Background: In Kerala, according to National Family Health Survey 4, 37.5% of males and 1.6% of females use alcohol. Even though the physical and mental health morbidity of alcohol dependence is well-known, studies are less.
T Joseph Jithin +3 more
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Alcoholism and Drug Addiction, 2015 Introduction: Alcohol dependence is an important risk factor for suicidal behaviours. Current data show that between 14 and 43% of alcohol-dependent patients attempt suicide.
Aneta Michalska +6 more
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