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. 2020 Nov 3;34(4):157–163. doi: 10.1007/s40211-020-00364-8

Table 1.

Estimates of the prevalence of alcohol-dependent individuals within the Austrian population aged ≥15 years (A) by the Jellinek formula according to data provided from Statistik Austria as well as the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) and displays the change in outcome parameters when data from GBD is adjusted for previously published data on either/or/and R/P

Modell P (% of liver cirrhosis cases attributable to alcohol abuse) D (death rate due to liver cirrhosis) K (death rate of alcohol-dependent individuals deceased due to alcohol-induced liver cirrhosis) R (ratio of all alcohol-dependent individuals to those with alcohol-associated diseases) A (prevalence of alcohol-dependent individuals within the Austrian population aged ≥15 years) (%)
Statistik Austria 2017 49 0.000174 0.0070 4.00 4.872
GBD 2017 49 0.000248 0.0070 4.00 6.936
GBD 2017 1 (adjusted R1) 49 0.000248 0.0070 5.30 9.190
GBD 2017 2 (adjusted R1 and P2) 58 0.000248 0.0070 5.30 10.878
GBD 2017 3 (adjusted P3) 29 0.000248 0.0070 4.00 4.105

R1: according to Cleary [14]; P2: according to Nilsson et al. [19]; P3: according to Gunnarsdottir et al. [18]