Epidemiology
Paranoid personality disorder occurs in about 0.5%–2.5% of the general population. It is seen in 2%–10% of psychiatric outpatients. It occurs more commonly in males.
A large long-term Norwegian twin study found paranoid personality disorder to be modestly heritable and to share a portion of its genetic and environmental risk factors with schizoid and schizotypal personality disorder.
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