Mortality studies in the long-term evaluation of treatment of alcoholics.
Mortality studies demonstrate that, in all the Countries evaluated, alcoholics die twenty years earlier than expected. Causes of death vary according to drinking patterns. Though mortality data seem crude, they can detect changes due to clinical intervention. Alcoholism studies should benefit by improvement of research methodologies as already applied to other chronic diseases.
Poldrugo
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F
Department of Psychiatry, University of Trieste/School of Medicine, Italy.
Chick
J D
JD
Moore
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N
Walburg
J A
JA
D000437:Alcoholism / Q000401:mortality* / Q000628:therapy*; D002423:Cause of Death; D015331:Cohort Studies; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy; D012106:Research; D013695:Temperance