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From Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs News:
Few studies have assessed the long-term mortality of a group of people with alcoholism who received treatment at the same program.
Researchers in this study tracked, for over 33 years, state and national death records of 500 people with alcoholism who had been admitted to a comprehensive, community-based alcohol treatment program in San Antonio.
Cancer and lung-related death rates were lower than expected in the early years of follow-up and higher than expected in the later years.
Ethnic and racial differences in mortality included (1) longer survival among whites than blacks and Hispanics, and (2) greater than expected frequency of deaths from liver disease and lifestyle causes in Hispanics than in blacks and whites.
The author acknowledges that findings from this group of urban poor will likely differ from findings in other populations with alcoholism.
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Posted on December 6, 2006 07:58 PM
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