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
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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
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author Templeton, Alexa H.
Carter, Karen L.T.
Sheron, Nick
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Verrill, Clare
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description 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 deemed to have died of alcohol associated arrhythmic death. Applying this study to the UK as a whole, alcohol related arrhythmic death or as we have termed it SUDAM (Sudden Unexpected Death in Alcohol Misuse) probably accounts for around 1,000 deaths, many of which are misattributed to other causes.
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spelling pubmed-28003342010-01-04 Sudden Unexpected Death in Alcohol Misuse—An Unrecognized Public Health Issue? Templeton, Alexa H. Carter, Karen L.T. Sheron, Nick Gallagher, Patrick J. Verrill, Clare Int J Environ Res Public Health Article 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 deemed to have died of alcohol associated arrhythmic death. Applying this study to the UK as a whole, alcohol related arrhythmic death or as we have termed it SUDAM (Sudden Unexpected Death in Alcohol Misuse) probably accounts for around 1,000 deaths, many of which are misattributed to other causes. Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2009-12 2009-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2800334/ /pubmed/20049246 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph6123070 Text en © 2009 by the authors; licensee Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Basel, Switzerland. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This article is an open-access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
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