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IJE Advance Access originally published online on September 29, 2008
International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38(1):154-155; doi:10.1093/ije/dyn209
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Alcohol poisoning in Russia: implications for monitoring and comparative risk factor assessment

Jürgen Rehm1,2,3,4

1Public Health and Regulatory Policies, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada.
3Head WHO Collaboration Centre for Substance Abuse, Zurich, Switzerland.
4Epidemiological Research Unit, Klinische Psychologie & Psychotherapie, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. E-mail: jtrehm@aol.com

Accepted 1 September 2008

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Zaridze and colleagues1 demonstrated in their large autopsy study that, in recent years, alcohol has been a main underlying determinant of mortality in Russia. They also shed light on the role of drinking patterns, as a substantial part of death certificates with unspecified cardiovascular causes of death (i.e. disease categories labelled ‘other’ or ‘not classified’) had lethal, or potentially lethal, concentrations of ethanol in blood. These unspecified cardiovascular causes of death, together with external causes of death also markedly impacted by alcohol, were . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   Implications for measurement in alcohol epidemiology
 

   Implications for comparative risk assessment
 

   Monitoring
 

   Conclusion
 

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