A multicentric Indian cross-sectional study on medical and psychiatric comorbidities among patients with alcohol dependence
Balaji Bharadwaj·Sanjay Kumar Munda·Bandita Abhijita·Subashree Kathatharan·Amit Singh·Mohita Joshi·Sujita Kumar Kar·Diptadhi Mukherjee·Phurailatpam Shivraj Sharma·Bipul Sharma·Tathagata Mahintamani·Abhishek Ghosh·Vidur Makkar·Mondeep Dhankar·B N Subodh·Sambhu Prasad·Pankaj Kumar·Richa Tripathi·Mohd. Rashid Alam·Shubhankar Tiwary·Raghav Kannappan·Nandhini Bojappen·Aishwariya Jha·Lekhansh Shukla·Jayant Mahadevan·Arpit Parmar·Debadatta Mohapatra·Dibyendu Mohanty·Gayatri Bhatia·Mohit Suva·Siddharth Sarkar·Yatan Pal Singh Balhara·Vipindeep Kaur Sandhu·Vishal Dhiman·Tanve Garg·Jawahar Singh·Bharat Udey·Mahak Aggarwal·Aniruddha Basu·KK Verma·Trisha Chakraborty·Tamonud Modak·Sourav Khanra·Aniruddha Mukherjee·Manoj Prithviraj·Ganesh Kumar Mallaram·Durganjali Boggula·Dulla S. N. Nireesha·Ragul Ganesh
Alcohol dependence is often associated with various medical and psychiatric conditions, that influence overall treatment outcomes. Available evidence largely comes from single-centre epidemiological studies with no comprehensive data on comorbidity patterns among treatment-seeking populations. To examine proportion and patterns of medical and psychiatric comorbidities among treatment-seeking patients with alcohol dependence across multiple centres in India, and to evaluate variations across cent