Concomitant Psychiatric and Nonalcohol‐Related Substance Use Disorders Among Hospitalized Patients with Alcoholic Liver Disease in the United States
Background Despite that the epidemiological studies on the comorbidity of alcohol misuse and psychiatric disorders have been studied, less is known about the magnitude of these disorders among patients with alcoholic liver disease (ALD). Our aim was to determine the prevalence of psychiatric and sub...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research clinical and experimental research, 2018-02, Vol.42 (2), p.397-402 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Background
Despite that the epidemiological studies on the comorbidity of alcohol misuse and psychiatric disorders have been studied, less is known about the magnitude of these disorders among patients with alcoholic liver disease (ALD). Our aim was to determine the prevalence of psychiatric and substance use disorders among hospitalized ALD patients in the United States.
Methods
We utilized a single‐level clinical classification software to identify patients with ALD and psychiatric/substance use disorders from the 2011 National Inpatient Sample data. The primary outcome was the prevalence of these disorders among hospitalized patients with ALD (n = 74,972) compared to those with chronic liver diseases not caused by alcohol (n = 350,140) and those without underlying liver diseases (n = 1,447,063).
Results
The prevalence of adjustment disorder, anxiety disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and depression was significantly higher among hospitalized patients with ALD when compared to those with chronic liver diseases not caused by alcohol (all with p‐values |
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ISSN: | 0145-6008 1530-0277 |
DOI: | 10.1111/acer.13567 |