Alcohol-related mortality risk in natural and non-natural death cases
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[1] Semmelweis University
Semmelweis University
Hungría
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- Localización: Journal of forensic sciences, ISSN-e 1556-4029, ISSN 0022-1198, Vol. 54, Nº. 6, 2009, págs. 1429-1432
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Determination of the associations between alcohol influence and sudden natural death represents challenges for medicolegal inves-tigations. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of alcohol influence in medicolegal autopsies. In our study of natural and non-natu-ral deaths cases (5496 total: 4045 males, 1451 females) were examined. Blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) were detected by headspace gaschromatographic method. We investigated the alcohol-related mortality using hierarchical log-linear statistical models. Severe BACs were detectedamong suicidal victims in the oldest age group (>65 years) (InF = 0.442) and among the homicide victims between the age of 40–65 years(InF = 0.234). Correlations we found between manner-of-death and sex suggested that the rate of males in accidents (lnF = 0.140) and the rate offemales in homicides (lnF = 0.193) were higher. It was concluded that the accurate statistical mortality database may provide a huge support for thedetermination of alcohol effects on human health and mortality
