Estimating mortality attributable to alcohol or tobacco - a cohort study from Germany.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about mortality from four disorder combinations: fully attributable to alcohol or tobacco, partly attributable to both alcohol and tobacco, to tobacco only, to alcohol only.

Aim

To analyze whether residents who had disclosed risky alcohol drinking or daily tobacco smoking had a shorter time to death than non-risky drinkers and never daily smokers twenty years later according to the disorder combinations.

Methods

A random adult general population sample (4,075 study participants) of a northern German area had been interviewed in the years 1996-1997. Vital status and death certificate data were gathered 2017-2018. The data analysis included estimates of alcohol- or tobacco-attributable mortality using all conditions given in the death certific

SUBMITTER: John U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11755885 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature