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

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BACKGROUND: 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. METHODS: In three Russian industrial cities with typical 1990s mortality patterns (Tomsk, Barnaul, Biysk), the addresses of 60,416 residents who had died at ages 15-74 years in 1990-2001 were visited in 2001-05. Family members were pr...

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Authors: Zaridze, D; Brennan, P; Boreham, J; Boroda, A; Karpov, R

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Lancet
• Volume: 373
• Issue: 9682
• Pages: 2201-2214
• Publication date: 2009-06-01
• DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(09)61034-5
• EISSN: 1474-547X
• ISSN: 0140-6736
• Language: English
• Keywords: Health Surveys; Case-Control Studies; Cost of Illness; Adolescent; Age Distribution; Sex Distribution; Death Certificates; Mortality; Cause of Death; Questionnaires; Humans; Confounding Factors (Epidemiology); Adult; Siberia; Middle Aged; Logistic Models; Risk Factors; Alcoholism; Population Surveillance; Urban Health; Sensitivity and Specificity; Female; Male