Hazard ratios and confidence intervals for mortality from causes directly attributable to alcohol, from all causes related to alcohol, and from causes not related to alcohol among patients discharged from a hospital for an alcohol related diagnosis, by type of diagnosis and socioeconomic group*
| Men | Women | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discharge diagnosis: | ||||||||||||
| Alcoholic disease of liver or pancreas | ||||||||||||
| Cause of death: | ||||||||||||
| Directly alcohol attributable | All alcohol related | Not alcohol related | Directly alcohol attributable | All alcohol related | Not alcohol related | |||||||
| Number of deaths | 1768 | 2192 | 546 | 448 | 513 | 117 | ||||||
| SES | ||||||||||||
| Upper white collar | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||||
| Lower white collar | 1.08 | (0.89 to 1.32) | 1.10 | (0.91 to 1.31) | 1.08 | (0.75 to 1.55) | 0.90 | (0.63 to 1.28) | 0.91 | (0.65 to 1.28) | 1.41 | (0.61 to 3.24) |
| Specialised manual | 1.11 | (0.93 to 1.33) | 1.11 | (0.95 to 1.31) | 0.97 | (0.70 to 1.35) | 0.83 | (0.56 to 1.23) | 0.84 | (0.58 to 1.23) | 1.32 | (0.54 to 3.25) |
| Unspecialised manual | 1.01 | (0.84 to 1.23) | 1.11 | (0.94 to 1.32) | 0.98 | (0.69 to 1.39) | 0.87 | (0.59 to 1.27) | 0.91 | (0.63 to 1.30) | 1.28 | (0.52 to 3.14) |
| Farmer | 1.15 | (0.89 to 1.48) | 1.21 | (0.97 to 1.52) | 1.14 | (0.74 to 1.76) | 1.08 | (0.62 to 1.88) | 1.07 | (0.63 to 1.83) | 2.42 | (0.85 to 6.93) |
| Other | 1.14 | (0.94 to 1.39) | 1.19 | (0.99 to 1.42) | 1.17 | (0.83 to 1.67) | 1.00 | (0.67 to 1.48) | 1.05 | (0.72 to 1.52) | 1.90 | (0.80 to 4.51) |
| (p for trend when <0.1)† | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||
| Alcohol dependence or alcohol psychoses | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cause of death: | ||||||||||||
| Directly alcohol attributable | All alcohol related | Not alcohol related | Directly alcohol attributable | All alcohol related | Not alcohol related | |||||||
| Number of deaths | 1872 | 3643 | 2274 | 272 | 491 | 312 | ||||||
| SES | ||||||||||||
| Upper white collar | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||||
| Lower white collar | 0.83 | (0.66 to 1.03) | 0.98 | (0.83 to 1.16) | 0.96 | (0.77 to 1.20) | 0.78 | (0.49 to 1.22) | 0.67 | (0.48 to 0.94) | 1.21 | (0.73 to 1.99) |
| Specialised manual | 0.83 | (0.69 to 1.01) | 0.94 | (0.82 to 1.09) | 0.99 | (0.82 to 1.20) | 0.84 | (0.52 to 1.36) | 0.88 | (0.61 to 1.25) | 1.06 | (0.62 to 1.83) |
| Unspecialised manual | 0.83 | (0.68 to 1.01) | 0.97 | (0.83 to 1.12) | 1.06 | (0.87 to 1.29) | 0.41 | (0.24 to 0.68) | 0.59 | (0.41 to 0.84) | 1.17 | (0.70 to 1.95) |
| Farmer | 0.93 | (0.72 to 1.20) | 0.96 | (0.79 to 1.17) | 0.94 | (0.74 to 1.20) | 0.84 | (0.41 to 1.73) | 0.82 | (0.47 to 1.43) | 1.47 | (0.77 to 2.83) |
| Other | 0.84 | (0.69 to 1.03) | 0.98 | (0.84 to 1.14) | 1.09 | (0.90 to 1.33) | 0.85 | (0.52 to 1.39) | 0.82 | (0.57 to 1.18) | 1.40 | (0.84 to 2.32) |
| (p for trend when <0.1)† | – | – | – | <0.001 | 0.05 | – | ||||||
| Intoxication | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cause of death: | ||||||||||||
| Directly alcohol attributable | All alcohol related | Not alcohol related | Directly alcohol attributable | All alcohol related | Not alcohol related | |||||||
| *In the model, age, language, marital status, family type, hospital type, length of hospitalisation and a dummy variable for the type of diagnosis have been adjusted for, all as categorical variables. †Calculated for the first four categories of SES. | ||||||||||||
| Number of deaths | 595 | 1176 | 935 | 81 | 171 | 174 | ||||||
| SES | ||||||||||||
| Upper white collar | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | ||||||
| Lower white collar | 0.81 | (0.55 to 1.20) | 0.99 | (0.74 to 1.32) | 1.03 | (0.72 to 1.47) | 0.92 | (0.37 to 2.29) | 0.76 | (0.41 to 1.42) | 1.95 | (0.82 to 4.64) |
| Specialised manual | 0.77 | (0.55 to 1.08) | 0.86 | (0.66 to 1.11) | 1.15 | (0.84 to 1.56) | 1.09 | (0.42 to 2.82) | 0.97 | (0.51 to 1.84) | 2.90 | (1.22 to 6.89) |
| Unspecialised manual | 0.85 | (0.60 to 1.20) | 0.97 | (0.75 to 1.26) | 1.04 | (0.76 to 1.44) | 0.71 | (0.27 to 1.85) | 0.72 | (0.38 to 1.36) | 1.79 | (0.75 to 4.30) |
| Farmer | 1.02 | (0.65 to 1.60) | 1.00 | (0.71 to 1.39) | 0.83 | (0.57 to 1.21) | 1.32 | (0.36 to 4.84) | 0.67 | (0.23 to 1.89) | 2.39 | (0.86–6.63) |
| Other | 0.90 | (0.63 to 1.28) | 0.99 | (0.76 to 1.30) | 0.99 | (0.72 to 1.36) | 0.96 | (0.36 to 2.58) | 0.92 | (0.47 to 1.77) | 2.47 | (1.04–5.87) |
| (p for trend when <0.1)† | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||