Table 1.
Alcohol-related death counts by age and cause distinguishing between main underlying causes, alcohol listed in the contributory causes of death and total derived from either underlying or contributory causes: MCOD, Spain 2016–2018
| Deaths with alcohol-related causes as UCOD | Alcohol listed in the contributory causes of death† | MCOD | MCOD/UCOD | |||||
| Alcoholic liver cirrhosis (K70) | Alcoholic dependence (F10) | External causes due to alcohol use (X45, X65, Y15) | Other causes wholly-attributable to alcohol* | All alcohol as underlying | ||||
| Men | ||||||||
| 30–44 | 156 | 18 | 28 | 6 | 208 | 66 | 274 | 1.32 |
| 45–64 | 1728 | 276 | 62 | 94 | 2160 | 1293 | 3453 | 1.60 |
| 65–84 | 1057 | 294 | 15 | 68 | 1434 | 1444 | 2878 | 2.01 |
| 85+ | 74 | 27 | 0 | 3 | 104 | 132 | 236 | 2.27 |
| All ages 30+ | 3015 | 615 | 105 | 171 | 3906 | 2935 | 6841 | 1.75 |
| Women | ||||||||
| 30–44 | 42 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 54 | 15 | 69 | 1.28 |
| 45–64 | 340 | 47 | 28 | 10 | 425 | 163 | 588 | 1.38 |
| 65–84 | 168 | 38 | 2 | 9 | 217 | 160 | 377 | 1.74 |
| 85+ | 13 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 23 | 46 | 2.00 |
| All ages 30+ | 563 | 97 | 37 | 22 | 719 | 361 | 1080 | 1.50 |
*Corresponds to the cause-of-death categories and ICD-10 codes: degeneration of nervous system due to alcohol (G31.2), alcoholic polyneuropathy (G62.1), alcoholic myopathy (G721), alcoholic cardiomyopathy (I42.6), alcoholic gastritis (K29.2) and alcohol-induced acute pancreatitis (K85.2).
†Refers to any alcohol-related cause of death listed in columns 1–3 and the above note.
MCOD, multiple causes-of-death; UCOD, underlying causes-of-death.