Recent heavy alcohol consumption at death certified as ischaemic heart disease: Correcting mortality data from Kaunas (Lithuania)

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 614-619

  Radisauskas, Ricardas ^a,b   Prochorskas, Remigijus ^a   Grabauskas, Vilius ^a   Bernotiene, Gailute ^a,b   Tamosiunas, Abdonas ^a,b   Veryga, Aurelijus ^a  

^a LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^b LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEART DEATH; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LITHUANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUDDEN DEATH; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL; WINTER;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEATH CERTIFICATES; DEATH, SUDDEN; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA;

EID: 80051986660     PISSN: 07350414     EISSN: 14643502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agr068     Document Type: Article

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