Titre : | Projections of alcohol deaths - a wake-up call (Comment) (2011) |
Auteurs : | N. SHERON ; C. HAWKEY ; I. GILMORE |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | Lancet (The) (Vol.377, n°9774, Apr 16, 2011) |
Article en page(s) : | 1297-1299 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés ALCOOL ; MORTALITE ; FOIE ; EVOLUTION ; SANTE PUBLIQUE ; POLITIQUEThésaurus géographique ROYAUME-UNI ; EUROPE |
Résumé : | According to WHO, morbidity attributable to alcohol in countries with an established market economy (10.3% of disability adjusted life years) comes second only to that of tobacco (11.7%). Liver disease is responsible for 70% of the directly recorded mortality from alcohol, and perhaps a quarter of the total attributable mortality; the true total is uncertain but is probably between 18 000 and 30 000 per year in England and Wales. Alcohol causes around 80% of deaths from liver disease, and trends in liver mortality reflect trends in overall alcohol-related harm; liver death rates are a measure of the damage caused to society by alcohol, and a good measure for the success of alcohol policy. [Extract] |
Domaine : | Alcool / Alcohol |
Refs biblio. : | 15 |
Affiliation : | Clinical Hepatology, Division of Infection, Inflammation and Immunity, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, United Kingdom / Royaume-Uni |
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