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Sudden Unexpected Death in Alcohol Misuse—An Unrecognized Public Health Issue?

Sudden arrhythmic cardiac death can occur in chronic misusers of alcohol. The only findings at post mortem are fatty liver and a negative or low blood alcohol. This is an under-recognized entity. Coroner’s post mortems in a typical UK city were studied. Seven out of 1,292 (0.5%) post mortems were de...

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Autores principales: Templeton, Alexa H., Carter, Karen L.T., Sheron, Nick, Gallagher, Patrick J., Verrill, Clare
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2800334/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20049246
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph6123070