Table 3.
Incidence and relative-risk of Alcohol-specific death in people with incident epilepsy vs. comparison cohort.
| Alcohol-related death | Number |
Rate/10,000PY (95%CI) |
Number |
Rate/10,000 PY (95%CI) |
HR (95% CI) |
Deprivation-adjusted HR (95%CI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPRD | Epilepsy cohort (n = 9,871; PY = 41,253) |
Comparison cohort (n = 185,800; PY = 916,572) |
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| 29 | 7.0 (4.7–10.1) | 106 | 1.2 (0.9–1.4) | 6.09 (3.96–9.37) | 5.47 (3.52–8.48) | |
| SAIL | Epilepsy cohort (n = 5,569; PY = 30,011) |
Comparison cohort (n = 110,021; PY = 685,575) |
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| 18 | 6.0 (3.6–9.5) | 96 | 1.4 (1.1–1.7) | 4.40 (2.62–7.37) | 4.08 (2.42–6.90) | |
| Meta-analyzed hazard ratios | 5.33 (3.83–7.42) | 4.85 (3.46–6.79) | ||||