Mortality from Alcoholic Cardiomyopathy: Exploring the Gap between Estimated and Civil Registry Data

Mortality from Alcoholic Cardiomyopathy: Exploring the Gap between Estimated and Civil Registry Data

Background: Based on civil registries, 26,000 people died from alcoholic cardiomyopathy (ACM) in 2015 globally. In the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 study, garbage coded deaths were redistributed to ACM, resulting in substantially higher ACM mortality estimates (96,669 deaths, 95% confidence i...

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Main Authors: Jakob Manthey, Jürgen Rehm
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-07-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Medicine
Subjects:
alcoholic cardiomyopathy
cardiovascular diseases
GBD study
vital statistics
garbage code
cause of death
alcohol per capita consumption
mortality
heart failure
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/8/8/1137

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