High alcoholism rate in patients with essential tremor

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Abstract
The charts were reviewed of 36 patients discharged from a VA [Veterans Administration] medical center with a diagnosis of essential tremor over a 10 yr period for evidence of alcohol dependency or abuse and for family history of alcoholism and other psychiatric disorders. A sex and age matched sample of patients admitted during the same period for herniorrhaphy was used as a control group. Patients with essential tremor had a significantly higher frequency of alcohol dependence and abuse than control subjects and also had a much higher rate of positive 1st-degree family history of alcoholism. Essential tremor is apparently an important cause of secondary alcoholism.

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