However, patterns of comorbidity differed by gender, with women most likely to have comorbid major depression or simple phobia, and men more likely to have comorbid antisocial personality disorder. Behavioral Disease Management Report, October, page 7. Read the full text of this article. A significant percentage of seriously injured patients admitted to hospital trauma centers have a current or lifetime history of substance use disorders, according to a recent article. In fact, say researchers from the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University, more than half of trauma center patients may meet criteria for substance abuse or dependence.
Men are more likely to meet such criteria than women.
The Brown University Digest of Addiction Theory and Application, October 1997, page 5. Read the full text of this article. But researchers suggest that having mom and the security blanket present at the same time might be worse than letting the doctor examine the child accompanied only by the blanket. Eight children in each of eight groups went for a routine noninvasive examination with their blanket alone, with their mother alone, with both mother and blanket and without blanket or mother. But the study showed a small negative difference when those children who were attached to their blanket were also accompanied by their mother.