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

David Zaridze; Paul Brennan; Jillian Boreham; Alex Boroda; Rostislav Karpov; Alexander Lazarev; Irina Konobeevskaya; Vladimir Igitov; Tatiana Terechova; Paolo Boffetta; Richard Peto

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61034-5

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

David Zaridze, Paul Brennan, Jillian Boreham, Alex Boroda, Rostislav Karpov, Alexander Lazarev, Irina Konobeevskaya, Vladimir Igitov, Tatiana Terechova, Paolo Boffetta, Richard Peto

Strathclyde Institute Of Pharmacy And Biomedical Sciences

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Abstract

Alcohol is an important determinant of the high and fluctuating adult mortality rates in Russia, but cause-specific detail is lacking. Our case-control study investigated the effects of alcohol consumption on male and female cause-specific mortality.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2201-2214
Number of pages	14
Journal	Lancet
Volume	373
Issue number	9682
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(09)61034-5
Publication status	Published - 27 Jun 2009

Keywords

sensitivity and specificity
mortality
questionnaires
urban health
humans
cause of death
population surveillance
age distribution
siberia
cost of illness
logistic models
risk factors
adult
alcoholism
confounding factors (epidemiology)
death certificates
health surveys
case-control studies
middle aged
adolescent
sex distribution
male
Female

UN SDGs

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