Problems in Social Medicine Related to Alcohol and Deaths: Autopsy Cases in the Southern Part of Osaka City
Related Experiment Video
Updated: Oct 14, 2025

Visualization and Analysis of Blood Flow and Oxygen Consumption in Hepatic Microcirculation: Application to an Acute Hepatitis Model
Published on: August 4, 2012
Naoto Tani1,2, Tomoya Ikeda1,2, Tatsuya Hirokawa1,2
1Department of Legal Medicine, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, 545-8585, Japan.
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to examine the social and medical background of alcohol dependence and to prevent the abuse of alcohol.
Methods:
Alcohol and deaths were retrospectively investigated based on the forensic postmortem data of 1694 decedents ≥20 years of age in 2008-2017. Of these, the 999 cases that could be tested for alcohol within 48 h of death were examined.
Results:
The alcohol-positive and alcohol-negative groups included 179 (17.9%) and 820 (82.1%) cases, respectively. In terms of medical issues, compared with the alcohol-negative group, men in the positive group were mostly in their 40s to 60s, whereas women's age peaked in the 70s. The causes of death included many blunt injuries in men, though there was no difference in women. Underlying diseases were more frequent in men than women, with many of them having heart or liver disease, and the percentage of cases with mental disorders was 16.8% in the alcohol-positive group. In 15 cases of the alcohol-positive group, phenothiazine and barbituric acids were detected in 53.3% and 46.7% of cases, respectively. The incidence of traffic accidents and homicides was higher in the alcohol-positive group than in the alcohol-negative group.
Conclusion:
Measures to address social issues based on risk factors for alcohol and deaths are required.
Related Concept Videos
Hypothesis Test for Test of Independence
H0: The two variables (factors)...
Stress Prevention and Stress Management Techniques IV
Coronary Artery Disease IV: Preventive Measures
Ethics in Research
Bias in Epidemiological Studies
Alcohols from Carbonyl Compounds: Reduction
Catalytic hydrogenation is similar to the reduction of an alkene or alkyne by adding H2 across the pi bond in the presence of transition metal catalysts like Raney Ni, Pd–C, Pt, or Ru. Aldehydes and ketones can be reduced by this method, often under mild to moderate heat (25–100°C) and...

