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Analyzing the frequency distribution of the personality disorders in the study subgroups we found that the most frequent were histrionic disorders among the bipolar patients (30%) and compulsive ones among the unipolar group (32%). Paranoid and dependent disorders were the most frequent (9%) among the control group. Borderline disorders were present only in the latter (6%). Further, per­sonality disorders were differently distributed among the three groups, most strongly clustered in the group of unipolar patients—avoidant (18%), compulsive (32%), dependent (25%), and passive-aggressive (11%) personalities—overlapping cluster III reported by Pfohl et al., in 1984 (24). Unipolar patients showed higher frequency personality disorders than bipolar and controls. Schizotypal and an­tisocial personality types were not present in any of the sample groups, although schizoids were found only among the unipolar patients (11%), as was the case with avoidant disorders. Table 1 presents data on morbidity risks for first-degree relatives according to the presence or absence of personality disorders, sex of probands, and type of familial relationship for the three study subgroups.
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