Alcoholism - Mortality
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Substance use among Iranian cardiac surgery patients and its effects on short-term outcome.

30 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: We assessed the prevalence of substance use among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft and valve surgery in northwest Iran. We evaluated the postoperative complications and in-hospital mortality of patients with substance ... Read more...

Elevated cancer mortality in a German cohort of bitumen workers: extended follow-up through 2004.

30 Aug 2009 The mortality follow-up in a cohort of German asphalt workers covered an additional 6 years. Male workers (N = 7919) were classified into four exposure categories: (1) exposure to bitumen only, (2) to bitumen and coal tar, (3) neither to tar nor to ... Read more...

Number of addictive substances used related to increased risk of unnatural death: a combined medico-legal and case-record study.

2 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Substance use disorders have repeatedly been found to lead to premature death, i.e. drug-related death by disease, fatal intoxications, or trauma (accidents, suicide, undetermined suicide, and homicide). The present study examined the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Alcoholism - Mortality'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Substance use among Iranian cardiac surgery patients and its effects on short-term outcome. 30 Oct 2009
• [Alcohol and early death in Russia] 6 Oct 2009
• Elevated cancer mortality in a German cohort of bitumen workers: extended follow-up through 2004. 30 Aug 2009
• Number of addictive substances used related to increased risk of unnatural death: a combined medico-legal and case-record study. 2 Aug 2009
• Alcohol and cause-specific mortality in Russia: a retrospective case-control study of 48,557 adult deaths. 25 Jun 2009
• Recidivistic offending and mortality in alcoholic violent offenders: a prospective follow-up study. 18 May 2009
• Longitudinal patterns of binge drinking among first year college students with a history of tobacco use. 4 May 2009
• Risk for suicide among medicaid beneficiaries. 30 Mar 2009
• Reduction in suicide mortality following a new national alcohol policy in Slovenia: an interrupted time-series analysis. 17 Mar 2009
• Estimating alcohol-attributable mortality among Indigenous Australians: towards Indigenous-specific alcohol aetiologic fractions. 27 Feb 2009
• Mortality risk up to 25 years after initiation of treatment among 420 Swedish women with alcohol addiction. 27 Feb 2009
• Little evidence that hepatitis C virus leads to a higher risk of mortality in the absence of cirrhosis and excess alcohol intake: the Swiss Hepatitis C Cohort Study. 21 Feb 2009
• Are there gender differences in the geography of alcohol-related mortality in Scotland? An ecological study. 14 Feb 2009
• Alcohol misuse needs a global response. 5 Feb 2009
• An examination of DSM-IV borderline personality disorder symptoms and risk for death by suicide: a psychological autopsy study. 30 Jan 2009
• Mortality and causes of death after hospital-treated self-poisoning in Oslo: a 20-year follow-up. 30 Jan 2009
• Alcohol problems and all-cause mortality in men and women: predictive capacity of a clinical screening tool in a 21-year follow-up of a large, UK-wide, general population-based survey. 6 Jan 2009
• Alcohol mortality in Russia: a historical perspective. 10 Dec 2008
• Alcohol policy. Battle of the binge. 9 Dec 2008
• Predictors of relapse to alcohol and illicit drugs after liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease. 25 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Alcoholism'

Definition: A primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial. Each of these symptoms may be continuous or periodic. (Morse & Flavin for the Joint Commission of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the American Society of Addiction Medicine to Study the Definition and Criteria for the Diagnosis of Alcoholism: in JAMA 1992;268:1012-4)

Descriptor UI: D000437

Alternative terms: Alcoholism; Alcoholic Intoxication, Chronic; Chronic Alcoholic Intoxication; Intoxication, Chronic Alcoholic; Alcohol Abuse; Abuse, Alcohol;

Related Mesh Headings: Alcohol Deterrents; Alcoholics Anonymous; Fetal Alcohol Syndrome; Psychoses, Alcoholic; Temperance;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C21.739.100.250; F03.900.100.350;

Technical Notes: human & animal; do not coord with CHRONIC DISEASE: alcoholism is presumed to be chronic; differentiate from ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION, being drunk, not chronic; acute alcoholic intox & binge drinking is ETHANOL /pois; /drug ther: consider also ALCOHOL DETERRENTS; consider also LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC & its specifics FATTY LIVER, ALCOHOLIC; HEPATITIS, ALCOHOLIC & LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; also PANCREATITIS, ALCOHOLIC; also CARDIOMYOPATHY, ALCOHOLIC; PSYCHOSES, ALCOHOLIC & FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME; index other compl of alcoholism under ALCOHOLISM /compl (IM) + disease /etiol not /chem ind (IM); abstinence from alcohol in alcoholism: coord with TEMPERANCE (NIM); available is SKID ROW ALCOHOLICS see HOMELESS PERSONS but see note there