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by Change | 13 May 2009

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The different types of co-occurrence of alcohol addiction and depression may be gender related, says a study.

alcohol addiction and major depression have been shown to be strongly connected to one another, according to a new study.

The research showed that the co-occurrence of alcohol addiction and depression co-occur in individuals in different ways.

Victor Hesselbrock, professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, said that the connection may be gender-related.

"Studies of both clinical and community samples have found that primary depression - depression occurs first, followed by alcoholism - is more typical in females while primary alcoholism - alcoholism followed by depression - reformat is more common among males," he said.

Most people affected with alcoholism report a lifetime history of depression, he continued, whereas the majority of people with depression do not report problems with alcohol addiction.

Results will be published in the August issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.

According to statistics from the NHS, it is estimated that one in 13 people in the UK are dependent on alcohol. The service estimates that several million people in the UK drink excessively to the extent that they are endangering their health.

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