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Alcohol and Alcoholism Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 335-338, 2001
© 2001 Medical Council on Alcoholism

Prevalence and mortality of heavy drinkers in a general medical hospital unit

A. Jarque-López, E. González-Reimers*,, F. Rodríguez-Moreno, F. Santolaria-Fernández, A. López-Lirola, R. Ros-Vilamajo, J. G. Espinosa-Villarreal and A. Martínez-Riera

Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Received 17 August 2000; in revised form 20 December 2000; accepted 9 February 2001

This study was performed in order to analyse the prevalence, clinical characteristics and mortality of heavy drinkers among hospitalized patients during a 2-year period. Chronic excessive alcohol consumption (daily intake >80 g of ethanol for males and >40 g for females) was found in 278 of 2913 hospital admissions and was strongly associated with the male sex (90.69%). Heavy drinkers were significantly younger than other admissions (15 and 10 years for men and women, respectively), but showed similar mortality rates to other admissions, despite a much earlier age at death (19.5 years for men and 22 years for women). There was a trend towards higher mortality rates among severe alcoholic women than severe alcoholic men and non-alcoholic women. Liver cirrhosis was the entity most frequently observed in the heavy drinkers, and was significantly more prevalent in alcoholic women.


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