Structure of Mortality of Persons Hospitalised for Alcohol Use Disorders in the Czech Republic from 1994 to 2013
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The harmful use of alcohol causes almost 6% of deaths worldwide and is related to more than 200 diseases. The most frequent causes of death in people with alcohol use disorders are diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract and cancer.
External causes are particularly common among men. These persons die prematurely in comparison with the general population.
AIMS: To analyse the structure of the mortality of persons hospitalised for alcohol use disorders in 1994-2013 and to calculate these persons' potential years of life lost. METHODS: A database-linkage study of data from the National Registry of Hospitalised Patients and from the Deaths Information System was performed.
In the National Registry of Hospitalised Patients, 204,807 hospitalisations of 90,376 persons with the primary diagnosis F10 were identified in the period 1994-2013. Of those, 25,815 people died.