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Demographics and clinical characteristics of alcohol-related admissions in a tertiary care hospital in Qatar: Does age matter?
Background: Alcohol consumption is a major cause of acute and chronic health conditions associated with comorbidities and traumatic injuries, despite its partial prohibition in some countries. Moreover, alcohol-related hospital admissions increase the burden on the healthcare system. More than 80% o...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8466544/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34604015 http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qmj.2021.36 |
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author | Abdelnaby, Menatella Abdalla, Tasnim Al-Kahtani, Hend Al-Rayashi, Dana Bashir, Rim Wanas, Yara Al-Neama, Ahmed Ibrahim, Hassan Ibrahim, Hussain Al-Adab, Aisha Asim, Mohammad El-Menyar, Ayman |
author_facet | Abdelnaby, Menatella Abdalla, Tasnim Al-Kahtani, Hend Al-Rayashi, Dana Bashir, Rim Wanas, Yara Al-Neama, Ahmed Ibrahim, Hassan Ibrahim, Hussain Al-Adab, Aisha Asim, Mohammad El-Menyar, Ayman |
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description | Background: Alcohol consumption is a major cause of acute and chronic health conditions associated with comorbidities and traumatic injuries, despite its partial prohibition in some countries. Moreover, alcohol-related hospital admissions increase the burden on the healthcare system. More than 80% of the population in Qatar comprises expatriates. This study aimed to analyze the demographics and clinical characteristics of subjects with alcohol-related emergency department (ED) visits/hospitalization with respect to different age groups in a single tertiary hospital in Qatar. Methods: It is a retrospective observational study of adult patients who visited the ED at Hamad General Hospital between January 2013 and March 2015 and were screened positive for alcohol use. Collected data included sociodemographic characteristics, blood alcohol concentration (BAC), pattern of admission, previous medical history, laboratory investigations, treatment, hospital course, and mortality. Data were compared with respect to the distribution of age groups such as < 25, 25–34, 35–44, 45–54, and >55 years. Results: In total, 1506 consecutively admitted patients screened positive for alcohol use were included in the study; the majority of them were males (95.6%), non-Qatari nationals (71.1%), and aged 35–44 years (30.9%). The age groups 35–44 years and 45–54 years showed the highest median BAC ([0.24 interquartile range (IQR: 0.14–0.33)] and [0.24 (IQR: 0.13–0.33)], respectively) as compared to the other age groups (P = 0.001). The pattern of hospital admission, sociodemographic status, presence of comorbidities, laboratory investigations, and mortality showed specific age-related distribution. Particularly, young adults were more likely to have a previous ED visit due to trauma, whereas older patients’ previous hospital admissions were mostly related to various underlying comorbidities. Conclusion: This study highlighted the patterns of age and clinico-epidemiological status of patients with alcohol-attributable hospital admissions. Our study showed that alcohol consumption was higher among the working-age group. Further studies are needed to investigate changes in the alcohol consumption patterns that may help plan for allocation of health resources and prevention of alcohol-related problems. |
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spelling | pubmed-84665442021-10-01 Demographics and clinical characteristics of alcohol-related admissions in a tertiary care hospital in Qatar: Does age matter? Abdelnaby, Menatella Abdalla, Tasnim Al-Kahtani, Hend Al-Rayashi, Dana Bashir, Rim Wanas, Yara Al-Neama, Ahmed Ibrahim, Hassan Ibrahim, Hussain Al-Adab, Aisha Asim, Mohammad El-Menyar, Ayman Qatar Med J Research Paper Background: Alcohol consumption is a major cause of acute and chronic health conditions associated with comorbidities and traumatic injuries, despite its partial prohibition in some countries. Moreover, alcohol-related hospital admissions increase the burden on the healthcare system. More than 80% of the population in Qatar comprises expatriates. This study aimed to analyze the demographics and clinical characteristics of subjects with alcohol-related emergency department (ED) visits/hospitalization with respect to different age groups in a single tertiary hospital in Qatar. Methods: It is a retrospective observational study of adult patients who visited the ED at Hamad General Hospital between January 2013 and March 2015 and were screened positive for alcohol use. Collected data included sociodemographic characteristics, blood alcohol concentration (BAC), pattern of admission, previous medical history, laboratory investigations, treatment, hospital course, and mortality. Data were compared with respect to the distribution of age groups such as < 25, 25–34, 35–44, 45–54, and >55 years. Results: In total, 1506 consecutively admitted patients screened positive for alcohol use were included in the study; the majority of them were males (95.6%), non-Qatari nationals (71.1%), and aged 35–44 years (30.9%). The age groups 35–44 years and 45–54 years showed the highest median BAC ([0.24 interquartile range (IQR: 0.14–0.33)] and [0.24 (IQR: 0.13–0.33)], respectively) as compared to the other age groups (P = 0.001). The pattern of hospital admission, sociodemographic status, presence of comorbidities, laboratory investigations, and mortality showed specific age-related distribution. Particularly, young adults were more likely to have a previous ED visit due to trauma, whereas older patients’ previous hospital admissions were mostly related to various underlying comorbidities. Conclusion: This study highlighted the patterns of age and clinico-epidemiological status of patients with alcohol-attributable hospital admissions. Our study showed that alcohol consumption was higher among the working-age group. Further studies are needed to investigate changes in the alcohol consumption patterns that may help plan for allocation of health resources and prevention of alcohol-related problems. HBKU Press 2021-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8466544/ /pubmed/34604015 http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qmj.2021.36 Text en © 2021 Abdelnaby, Abdalla, Al-Kahtani, Al-Rayashi, Bashir, Wanas, Al-Neama, Ibrahim, Ibrahim, Al-Adab, Asim, El-Menyar, licensee HBKU Press. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Paper Abdelnaby, Menatella Abdalla, Tasnim Al-Kahtani, Hend Al-Rayashi, Dana Bashir, Rim Wanas, Yara Al-Neama, Ahmed Ibrahim, Hassan Ibrahim, Hussain Al-Adab, Aisha Asim, Mohammad El-Menyar, Ayman Demographics and clinical characteristics of alcohol-related admissions in a tertiary care hospital in Qatar: Does age matter? |
title | Demographics and clinical characteristics of alcohol-related admissions in a tertiary care hospital in Qatar: Does age matter? |
title_full | Demographics and clinical characteristics of alcohol-related admissions in a tertiary care hospital in Qatar: Does age matter? |
title_fullStr | Demographics and clinical characteristics of alcohol-related admissions in a tertiary care hospital in Qatar: Does age matter? |
title_full_unstemmed | Demographics and clinical characteristics of alcohol-related admissions in a tertiary care hospital in Qatar: Does age matter? |
title_short | Demographics and clinical characteristics of alcohol-related admissions in a tertiary care hospital in Qatar: Does age matter? |
title_sort | demographics and clinical characteristics of alcohol-related admissions in a tertiary care hospital in qatar: does age matter? |
topic | Research Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8466544/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34604015 http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/qmj.2021.36 |
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