Benatti B, Celebre L, Girone N, et al. - Researchers examined gender disparities in a large clinical sample of 229 Italian obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) patients. Assessment of patients through structured clinical interviews, the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale and the Clinical Global Impression scale. Findings suggest that relative to male OCD patients, female patients exhibit more frequent occurrence of lifetime psychiatric comorbidities; females had poly-comorbidities twice as high compared with males. In addition, the female group had a significant later onset of symptoms and a higher age at first treatment. Further, there were higher rates of cleaning and washing compulsions in the female subgroup compared with the male subgroup. Findings thereby support the notion that OCD is often a comorbid condition with other specific clinical characteristics in female patients compared with males.