title: Mortality among men alcoholics in Iceland, 1951--74.
abstract: In close to 3000 alcoholics followed up from 4 to 24 years after first contact with a treatment facility, the death rate was more than double the expected rate; the rates of death due to accidents and suicides were 4 times the expected rates.
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality*; D005235:Fatty Liver, Alcoholic / Q000401:mortality; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D007055:Iceland; D008104:Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000401:mortality; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013405:Suicide