Alcohol use and death by suicide: A meta-analysis of 33 studies
“Stress, loneliness, and social isolation; and mental health conditions might also have contributed to the increase in deaths from excessive alcohol use during the COVID-19 pandemic,” the report said. There appears to be a consistent finding of an immediately higher cardiovascular risk following any alcohol consumption, but by 24 hours, only heavy alcohol intake confers continued risk 19. Alcoholism is known to be greatly underdiagnosed in death certificates, a fact that biases estimates of alcohol-related mortality. An autopsy series of 1658 cases showed that death certificates mentioned alcohol-related diseases in less…
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