Ethnic variations in liver- and alcohol-related disease hospitalisations and mortality: The Scottish health and ethnicity linkage study

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 593-601

  Bhala, Neeraj ^a,b   Cézard, Genevieve ^c   Ward, Hester J T ^c,d   Bansal, Narinder ^c,e   Raj, Bhopal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLINGTON HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d INFORMATION SERVICES DIVISION   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN; ALCOHOL LIVER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRITISH CITIZEN; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAKISTANI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCOTLAND; SCOTSMAN; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH ASIAN; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; LIVER DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER DISEASES, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84991372983     PISSN: 07350414     EISSN: 14643502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agw018     Document Type: Article

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