Avtor/Urednik		Hovnik-Keršmanc, Marjetka; Čebašek-Travnik, Zdenka
Naslov		Najpogostejši osnovni vzroki smrti in poraba alkohola v Sloveniji
Prevedeni naslov		The most frequent underlying causes of death and the alcohol consumption in Slovenia
Tip		članek
Vir		Zdrav Vars
Vol. in št.		Letnik 37, št. 1-2
Leto izdaje		1998
Obseg		str. 19-25
Jezik		slo
Abstrakt		Death is one of the noxious consequences due co alcohol usage. It has been estimated that 3% to 10% of all deaths have been related to alcohol. The whole share of mortality in Slovenia imputed to alcohol is still not known. Ten most frequent underlying causes of death of population in Slovenia in 1994 are presented and compared with the USA, where the share of alcohol related mortality for individual causes of death has already been established. The data for Slovenia have been arranged by age groups and sex on the bases of the dead at the Institute of Public Health of the Republic of Slovenia. Illnesses and conditions where, by the data from literature, alcohol was present at least in 25 % of deaths, were particularly dealt with. In comparison with the USA and some other countries (Great Britain, Finland, France, Canada) the Slovene percentage of deaths related to alcohol is higher, which could be due to the high consumption of pure alcohol. For a more accurate evaluation of the influence of alcohol to the mortality in Slovenia we would need a special epidemiological research.
Izvleček		Smrt je ena izmed škodljivih posledic rabe alkohola. Ocenjujejo, da je z alkoholom povezanih od tri do deset odstotkov vseh smrti. Kolikšen je celoten delež alkoholu pripisljive umrljivosti v Sloveniji, zaenkrat ni znano. Avtorici prikazujeta deset najp gostejših osnovnih vzrokov smrti za prebivalce Slovenije v letu 1994 in jih primerjata z Združenimi državami Amerike (ZDA), za katere so že ugotovili delež alkoholu pripisljive umrljivosti za posamezne vzroke smrti. Podatki za Slovenijo so iz baze umrlih na Inštitutu za varovanje zdravja RS, razporejeni po starostnih skupinah in spolu. Posebej sta obravnavali tiste bolezni in stanja, pri katerih je po podatkih iz literature alkohol udeležen vsaj v 25 odstotkih smrti. Primerjava podatkov z ZDA nakazuje, da v Sloveniji odstotek smrti, povezanih z alkoholom, presega odstotek v ZDA in tudi v nekaterih drugih državah (Velika Britanija, Finska, Francija, Kanada), kar lahko povezujemo z veliko porabo čistega alkohola na prebivalca. Za natančnejšo oceno vpliva alkohola na umrljivost v Sloveniji bi potrebovali posebno epidemiološko raziskavo.
Deskriptorji		ALCOHOL DRINKING ALCOHOLISM SLOVENIA