Estudio sobre causas de mortalidad de 428 pacientes alcohólicos. / [Death causes in 428 alcoholic patients: a descriptive study]

ABSTRACT

Several studies have demonstrated either a direct or an indirect relationship between alcoholism and death causes. The present paper is a descriptive study about death causes in 428 alcoholic patients from San José, Costa Rica, metropolitan area, whose death occurred between 1978 and 1988. Sample subjects were males, under 90-year-old at death time. It was found out that basic death causes were Traumatism and poisoning, 25