Alcohol and cause-specific mortality in Russia: a retrospective case-control study of 48 557 adult deaths

The Lancet

Volumn 373, Issue 9682, 2009, Pages 2201-2214

  Zaridze, David ^a   Brennan, Paul ^b   Boreham, Jillian ^c   Boroda, Alex ^a   Karpov, Rostislav ^d   Lazarev, Alexander ^e   Konobeevskaya, Irina ^d   Igitov, Vladimir ^e   Terechova, Tatiana ^e   Boffetta, Paolo ^b   Peto, Richard ^c  

^a N N BLOKHIN RUSSIAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e Russian Cancer Res Centre   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ACCIDENT; ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DYING; FAMILY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL AREA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIVER CANCER; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; TUBERCULOSIS; VIOLENCE; VODKA;

EID: 67649094171     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61034-5     Document Type: Article

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