title: [Premature death and potential years of life lost due to alcohol consumption in Spain and the different autonomous communities in 2004].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study is to analyse premature deaths due to alcohol consumption in 2004 in Spain and its different Autonomous Communities.
  
  
  METHODS
  Using data on deaths that can be attributed to alcohol consumption in 2004 for Spain and its different Autonomous Communities, the Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL) were calculated up to the age of 70 for each diagnostic category, by sex and 5-year age groups.
  
  
  METHODS
  Spain: 17 Autonomous Communities, Ceuta and Melilla.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data on deaths that can be attributed to alcohol consumption in 2004 for Spain and its different Autonomous Communities.
  
  
  METHODS
  The number of PYLL, the percentage of PYLL, and average PYLL.
  
  
  RESULTS
  During 2004, 118,411 PYLL were lost, 4 times higher in males than in females, the average PYLL per death being attributable to alcohol was 22.6 years (ranging from 34.7 in Ceuta and 20.2 in Asturias). Acute causes (68% of the PYLL), and in particular unintentional accidents (47.9 of the PYLL), were the main causes that contributed to premature death related to alcohol consumption in Spain and in each of Spanish Autonomous Communities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The estimation of the PYLL shows the great impact that alcohol consumption has on the premature death rate in Spain ant the Spanish Autonomous Communities. Given that alcohol consumption is an avoidable cause of death, the adoption of preventive measures aimed at reducing consumption, as well as the early detection and treatment of possible alcohol related problems is vital.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Estudios de Alcohol y Drogas, Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, España.
authors.forename: Inmaculada
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fierro
authors.forename: José Luis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Yáñez
authors.forename: Francisco Javier
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Alvarez
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000401:mortality*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy; D008297:Male; D013030:Spain