Some considerations in using cirrhosis mortality rates as indicators of the prevalence of alcoholism.
Analysis of data on death certificates indicates that the value of P (the percentage of all deaths due to cirrhosis of the liver that can be attributed to alcoholism) in the Jellinek estimation formula is a function of sex, race and whether or not an autopsy was performed.
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001344:Autopsy; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008104:Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / Q000401:mortality*; D008297:Male; D009026:Mortality; D044469:Racial Groups; D012737:Sex Factors