Epidemiology of drunken forms of alcohol dependence with the influence of heliogeophysical factors
In this article the results of a study of archival materials of 25169 patients with alcohol addiction (F10.2 - F10.4) in Poltava Regional Clinical Psychiatric Hospital named after O.F. Maltseva is one eleven-year from 1997 to 2007 cycle are presented. The reported incidence of alcohol drinking bouts for a long time in one region showed that it is a complex psychobiological process. Number of hospitalizations of young people (under 20 years) with drunk forms of alcohol addiction and episodic drinking bout over the study period increased more than twice. These data indicate an association in patients with alcohol addiction, as well as episodic drinking bouts with circadial rhythms, that cause the clinical manifestations of these states and the fluctuation of income patients for inpatient care in a given period. Onset of the disease correlates with the peaks of solar activity and seasonal (usually spring and autumn) period. It was revealed: the most pronounced maxima of admissions to the hospital with alcoholic drinking bout in March-May, less pronounced rise in October-December, which leads to the usefulness of therapeutic and preventive measures in this group of patients in February-March and September-October.