title: Alcohol and mortality. Diagnostic considerations.
abstract: Two hundred fifty of 1289 alcoholics died within eight years of treatment of alcoholism or its complications. Gastrointestinal and cardiovascular disorders were significantly greater among the group who died within one year of treatment. Other sex, age and racial differences were also significant.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000430:Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium / Q000401:mortality; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality*; D002310:Cardiomyopathy, Alcoholic / Q000401:mortality; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008104:Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D012737:Sex Factors