Can an improvement and increase in treatment explain unexpected trends in alcohol-related harm in Sweden?

Addiction

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 669-671

  Romelsjö, Anders ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ALCOHOLISM; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DEATH; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; SWEDEN;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; SWEDEN;

EID: 33947113878     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2007.01753.x     Document Type: Letter

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