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Alcoholic typology and season of birth
1Department of Psychiatry, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234, USA.
Objective:
This study analyzed the half years of birth of a large (n = 113,276) population of alcoholic patients in the U.S. Army Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Program from 1986 through 1990.
Method:
Subjects were enrolled for treatment of alcoholism or alcohol-related problems, and were analyzed for half year of birth. Groupings by age and gender, consistent with current theories of alcoholic typology, were compared, by means of chi-square tests, and by comparisons of two rates or proportions.
Results:
The 17-21 year old and the 22-39 year old age groups differed by 5.1% in regard to half year of birth (chi-square = 260.317, p < 0.001, 95% CI:4.481 to 5.725, odds ratio: 1.23). Both groups differed significantly from the normal circannual birth pattern, but in opposite directions.
Conclusions:
The findings support the differentiation of types of alcoholics by age, which is a characteristic of Cloninger's classification, suggesting a biological, pre-natal factor.
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