[Role of sex and age in the occurrence and course of attack-like schizophrenia (based on epidemiological study data)].

On the basis of an over-all investigation of 2 districts of Moscow (1548 patients) the authors studied correlations between clinical traits of attack-like schizophrenia and factors of sex and age. It was demonstrated that the disease most frequently (irrespective of the sex and duration) manifests itself by affective-delusional attacks, then go depressive states, acute-delusional oneiroid and manic attacks. The statistical processing of these results demonstrates the existence of a common regularity in the development of clinical traits of attack-like schizophrenia. Factors of sex and age contribute only to conditions of a predilectiveness in an occurrence of different syndromes.