National mortality rates from chronic liver disease and consumption of alcohol and pig meat

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 174-182

  Dalton, H R ^a   Bendall, R P ^a   Pritchard, C ^a   Henley, W ^b   Melzer, D ^c  

^a ROYAL CORNWALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY PENINSULA SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic liver disease; Ethanol consumption; Hepatitis B virus (HBV); Hepatitis C virus (HCV); Hepatitis E virus (HEV); Mortality; Pork consumption

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AUSTRIA; BEEF; CANADA; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CZECH REPUBLIC; DENMARK; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FINLAND; FOOD INTAKE; FRANCE; GERMANY; GREECE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; ITALY; MEAT; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; NORWAY; POLAND; PORTUGAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; SEROPREVALENCE; SPAIN; SWEDEN; SWINE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; CATTLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LIVER DISEASE; STATISTICS; TIME;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; MEAT; SWINE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 74949113631     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268809990306     Document Type: Article

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