The influence of gender on the clinical and dynamic indicators of alcohol dependence, the level of aggression of patients taking into account comorbidity with affective disorders.

To assess the influence of comorbid affective disorders (AD) on the clinical and dynamic indicators of alcohol dependence syndrome (ADS), the level of aggression in patients, and to examine gender differences. Two groups were analyzed: Group F10 ( = 149) included patients with ADS without comorbid AD, and group F10 + F3 ( = 61) of patients with ADS comorbid with AD. Clinical-psychopathological, clinical-follow-up, psychometric, and statistical methods were used.