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Alcohol-related deaths in the West of Ireland
M J O'Brien1, J D Kennedy1, M P Little1
1University Department of Pathology, Regional Hospital, Galway.
Abstract:
A Review of alcohol-related deaths which came to post-mortem in this department over the period 1947 to 1973 inclusive is presented.An alcohol-related death for the purpose of the study is one in which alcoholic hepatitis or portal cirrhosis was found at necropsy or where the alcohol level estimated on a urine sample taken post-mortem was greater than 150 mg./100 ml.There has been an increase in the frequency of alcohol-related deaths over the period studied; the increase was most marked in recent years and the highest figure was for 1972-12.1 per cent of all adult necropsies.The age and sex distribution and the mode of death in the alcohol-related deaths is documented.The incidence of alcoholic liver disease in the group of cases selected on the basis of a high urine alcohol is compared with that of a control series of 100 consecutive adult coroner's necropsies. The incidence of portal cirrhosis and of alcoholic hepatitis in the alcohol-related group was found to be six times that of the control series.The post-mortem incidence of portal cirrhosis over the period is reported. The highest incidence was for the five year period 1969-1973-1.67 per cent of adult post-mortems.
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