Table 4

Alcohol attributable deaths by cause (>15 years), England and Wales, 1996

	Conditions		Deaths attributable to alcohol/all deaths
	Conditions		Men	Women
Neoplasms	Rectum cancer	174/2819	358/2136
	Colon cancer	934/5001	401/5491
	Oropharyngeal cancer	356/874	97/462
	Laryngeal cancer	74/635	9/174
	Liver cancer	108/1049	36/766
	Oesophageal cancer	829/3567	233/2268
	Breast cancer	—	667/12179
Circulatory	Haemorrhagic stroke^4-150	598/2848	426/4465
	Essential hypertension	12/64	15/177
	IHD	−14485/70488	−6813/58556
	Alcoholic cardiomyopathy	116/116	24/24
Gastrointestinal	Alcoholic liver disease	1370/1370	689/689
	Chronic pancreatitis	10/46	2/32
	Alcoholic gastritis	3/3	2/2
Injuries and adverse effects	Assaults	75/160	24/50
	Accidental drowning	50/131	16/43
	Accidental falls	486/1439	690/2177
	Accidents caused by fire/flames	101/229	77/176
	Inhalation and ingestion	6/127	6/126
	Occupational injuries	4/63	0/2
	Accidental poisoning by alcohol	13/13	9/9
	Motor vehicle traffic accidents	654/2145	104/803
	Suicide	797/2648	200/794
Other alcohol essential	Non-dependent abuse of alcohol	100/100	44/44
	Alcohol dependence syndrome	172/172	78/78
	Alcoholic psychosis	10/10	4/4
Total	−7 433	−2 602
Deaths from all causes	261 571	287 796
% Alcohol attributable	−2.8%	−0.9%

↵4-150 The ICD-9 code for stroke is often “unspecified”, therefore we have estimated the proportion of deaths that are of haemorrhagic origin using proportions form the Oxford Stroke Study (Bamford J et al. A prospective study of acute cerebrovascular disease in the community: the Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project 1981–1986. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1990;53:16–22).