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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 30.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Public Health. 2007 Dec 26;18(3):252–257. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckm124

Table 3.

The role of alcohol in deaths of unidentified men aged 25–54 in Izhevsk, June 2004-September 2005a

Total
number
Percent
Total number of unidentified deaths 282 100
Primary cause of death was disease
  or pathological process related to alcohol
59 20.9
Deceased had a concentration of
  alcohol in blood or urine >0.10
96 34.0
Deceased had alcoholic cardiomyopathy
  or alcoholic liver disease
172 61.0
a

Categories are not mutually exclusive and thus the sum of deaths from the three categories exceeds the total number of deaths