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COMORBIDITIES IN ALCOHOL USE DISORDERS IN TUZLA CANTON AREA - BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Miralem Mešalović
orcid.org/0000-0001-8630-8353
; Department of Psychiatry University Clinical Center Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina ; School of Medicine University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Izet Pajević
; Department of Psychiatry University Clinical Center Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina ; School of Medicine University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mevludin Hasanović
; Department of Psychiatry University Clinical Center Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina : School of Medicine University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Introduction: Previous research has shown the simultaneous presence of health diseases and alcohol use disorder (AUD). This
research emphasizes the importance of individual diseases, the simultaneous presence and connection of different diseases, which
creates the conditions for more adequate treatment of patients with AUD. Determine somatic, neurological and psychiatric diseases
in patients with AUD in the Tuzla Canton (TK) in the period from 01.01.2011. to 31.12.2015.
Subjects and methods: A retrospective study on the systematic cause of 1,863 patients with AUD recorded in the TK health system.
Results: Among 1004 (53,9%) patients with AUD, somatic diseases were present; in men: arterial hypertension 573 (31.7%),
alcoholic liver disease 269 (14.9%), diabetes mellitus 211 (11.7%); and in women: arterial hypertension 27 (49.1%), diabetes
mellitus 27 (49.1%), elevated lipoproteins 3 (5.5%); alcoholic liver disease 1 (1.8%) and anemia 1 (1.8%). Among 1196 (64,2%)
patients with AUD, neurological diseases were present; in men: cognitive impairment 627 (34.7%), post-stroke condition 418
(23.1%), polyneuropathy 269 (14.9%); and in women, post stroke condition 28 (50.9%). Psychiatric comorbidity was determined in
1619 (86.9%) patients with AUD; in men: depressive disorder 806 (44.6%), personality disorder 660 (36.5%), while nicotine
addiction 27 (1.5%) and dementia 13 (0.7%) were least present; in women: personality disorder 33 (60.0%), neurotic disorder 27
(49.1%), depressive disorder 22 (40.0%). The largest number of patients with somatic (787 or 42.25%), neurological (939 or
50.40%) and psychiatric comorbidity (939 or 50.40%) belonged to the age group 55-64.9 years.
Conclusion: Slightly more than half of the patients with AUD were diagnosed with somatic diseases, almost two thirds were
diagnosed with neurological diseases and with more than four fifths of patients were diagnosed with psychiatric diseases. Of the
somatic diseases the most common ones were, arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and alcoholic liver disease; from neurological
diseases: cognitive impairment, post-stroke condition and polyneuropathy; and the most common of psychiatric illnesses were
depressive disorder and personality disorder. The largest number of patients are in the ages of 55-64.9.
Ključne riječi
medical characteristics; alcohol use disorder; Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hrčak ID:
271848
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Datum izdavanja:
19.10.2021.
Posjeta: 209 *