The harmful use of alcohol causes almost 6% of deaths worldwide and is related to more than 200 diseases. The most frequent causes of death in people with alcohol use disorders are diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract and cancer. External causes are particularly common among men. These persons die prematurely in comparison with the general population. AIMS: To analyse the structure of the mortality of persons hospitalised for alcohol use disorders in 1994–2013 and to calculate these persons’ potential years of life lost. METHODS: A database-linkage study of data from the National Registry of Hospitalised Patients and from the Deaths Information System was performed. In the National Registry of Hospitalised Patients, 204,807 hospitalisations of 90,376 persons with the primary diagnosis F10 were identified in the period 1994–2013. Of those, 25,815 people died. RESULTS: Almost 83% of those 25,815 patients were economically active. The most frequent causes of death in this group included liver diseases (18%), diseases of the circulatory system (15%), malignant neoplasms (7%), and disorders caused by the use of alcohol (3%). External causes (24%) most often involved random accidents (13%). Suicides were also high in numbers. The potential years of life lost (PYLL) indicator showed that 24.2 years were lost in one economically active person. CONCLUSION: Most persons who died were economically active. Liver diseases, cardiovascular diseases, tumours, and external causes were the most frequent causes of death. More than 24 years were lost in one economically active person.

• Klíčová slova
• PYLL, DATABASE-LINKAGE studie,
• MeSH
• adresáře jako téma MeSH
• alkoholické nemoci jater mortalita   MeSH
• alkoholismus * komplikace   mortalita   MeSH
• hospitalizace MeSH
• kardiovaskulární nemoci klasifikace   mortalita   MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• nádory klasifikace   mortalita   MeSH
• nemoci jater mortalita   MeSH
• poruchy vyvolané alkoholem * klasifikace   mortalita   MeSH
• předčasná smrt * MeSH
• příčina smrti * MeSH
• výzkum MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• Publikační typ
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Česká republika MeSH

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and especially coronary heart disease (CHD) are the main causes of death in the Slovak Republic (SR). The aim of this study is to explore trends in age-adjusted coronary heart disease mortality rates in the whole Slovak population and in the population of working age between the years 1993 and 2009. A related indicator - potential years of life lost (PYLL) due to CHD--was calculated in the same period for males and females. Crude CHD mortality rates were age-adjusted using European standard population. The joinpoint Poisson regression was performed in order to find out the annual percentage change in trends. The age-adjusted CHD mortality rates decreased in the Slovak population and also in the population of working age. The change was significant only within the working-age sub-group. We found that partial diagnoses (myocardial infarction and chronic ischaemic heart disease) developed in the mirror-like manner. PYLL per 100,000 decreased during the observed period and the decline was more prominent in males. For further research we recommend to focus on several other issues, namely, to examine the validity of cause of death codes, to examine the development of mortality rates in selected age groups, to find out the cause of differential development of mortality rates in the Slovak Republic in comparison with the Czech Republic and Poland, and to explain the causes of decrease of the age-adjusted CHD mortality rates in younger age groups in Slovakia.

• MeSH
• dospělí MeSH
• infarkt myokardu mortalita   MeSH
• ischemická choroba srdeční mortalita   MeSH
• koronární nemoc epidemiologie   mortalita   MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• sexuální faktory MeSH
• věkové faktory MeSH
• Check Tag
• dospělí MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• mužské pohlaví MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• ženské pohlaví MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• práce podpořená grantem MeSH
• tabulky MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Česká republika MeSH
• Polsko MeSH
• Slovenská republika MeSH