Table 2.
Percentage prevalence of alcohol problems by cause of death, men aged 25–54 years, Izhevsk, Russia, 2003–05
| Cause of death |
All deaths |
Deaths with BAC ≤2.5 g/l at forensic autopsya |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered with narcology dispensary | Hazardous drinkerb (proxy report) | Zapoi in previous week (proxy report) | Registered with narcology dispensary | Hazardous drinkerb (proxy report) | Zapoi in previous week (proxy report) | |
| Circulatory disease | 16.2 (93) | 43.5 (224) | 20.8 (118) | 18.3 (61) | 47.6 (140) | 23.2 (76) |
| IHD | 11.6 (30) | 37.4 (86) | 14.5 (37) | 12.9 (22) | 40.0 (60) | 15.4 (26) |
| MI | 4.5 (3) | 21.3 (13) | 10.6 (7) | 10.7 (3) | 28.0 (7) | 17.9 (5) |
| Other IHD | 14.1 (27) | 43.2 (73) | 15.8 (30) | 13.3 (19) | 42.4 (53) | 14.9 (21) |
| Alcoholic cardiomyopathy | 32.2 (39) | 72.6 (77) | 50.0 (60) | 34.6 (28) | 62.9 (44) | 43.2 (35) |
| Other cardiomyopathy | 13.1 (8) | 40.7 (22) | 16.9 (10) | 14.6 (7) | 39.5 (17) | 15.2 (7) |
| Cerebrovascular disease | 14.0 (14) | 29.5 (28) | 10.0 (10) | 19.0 (4) | 65.0 (13) | 38.1 (8) |
| Haemorrhagic stroke | 8.9 (4) | 44.2 (19) | 22.2 (45) | 20.0 (3) | 78.6 (11) | 53.3 (8) |
| Occlusive stroke | 19.0 (4) | 20.0 (4) | 0.0 (0) | 0.0 (0) | 0.0 (0) | 0.0 (0) |
| Other cerebrovascular disease | 17.6 (6) | 15.6 (5) | 0.0 (0) | 16.7 (1) | 33.3 (2) | 0.0 (0) |
| Other circulatory disease | 6.1 (2) | 36.7 (11) | 3.1 (1) | 0.0 (0) | 54.6 (6) | 0.0 (0) |
| Acute alcohol poisoning | 27.4 (26) | 74.7 (62) | 42.1 (40) | 20.0 (1) | 60.0 (3) | 40.0 (2) |
| All causes | 16.7 (292) | 58.4 (747) | 22.0 (381) | 18.6 (869) | 54.7 (416) | 26.2 (224) |
| Total number of all- cause deaths | 1750 | 1542 | 1734 | 869 | 761 | 856 |
Figures in parentheses are numerators for percentages. Denominators vary within cause because of missing data.
aRestricted to deaths subject to forensic autopsy.
bHazardous drinker defined as proxy report of one or more of the following in the past year: drinking non-beverage alcohol or one or more episodes of zapoi (excluding those who only had an episode of zapoi in previous week), or twice weekly or more occurrence of excessive drunkenness, hangover or going to sleep at night because of being drunk.