TABLE 39
ALCOHOL-RELATED DEATHS BY CAUSE
British Columbia, 1996-2000 and 2001
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FIGURE 23
ALCOHOL-RELATED DEATHS BY CAUSE
BRITISH COLUMBIA, 2001
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Deaths that are "directly" related to alcohol are identified by specific underlying causes of death that involve alcohol. Deaths "indirectly" related to alcohol do not have an alcohol-related underlying cause of death, but alcohol was noted somewhere on the
Medical Certification of Death.
- There were 1,779 deaths that were directly or indirectly related to alcohol in 2001 and 9,012 deaths in the five-year period, 1996-2000.
- In 2001, 299 deaths (16.8%) were directly related to alcohol, which is based on the underlying cause of death. In the 1996-2000 period, 1,648 deaths or 18.3% of alcohol-related deaths were directly related to alcohol.
- In 2001, alcoholic liver disease accounted for more than half (50.5%) of the direct deaths from alcohol, higher than the proportion shown for 1996-2000 (44.4%). Alcoholic psychoses and dependence was the next largest category of deaths directly related to alcohol.
- There were 1,480 deaths (83.2%) indirectly related to alcohol in 2001. Circulatory system diseases were the largest category of deaths indirectly related to alcohol, accounting for almost a quarter of the indirect deaths (27.8%) in 2001 and a slightly lower proportion (27.7%) in 1996-2000. Other large causes of death in the indirect group were neoplasms, unintentional injury/accidents, and respiratory system diseases.
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