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ALCOHOL AS A CAUSE OF SUDDEN UNEXPECTED DEATH
Author(s) -
Laurie W.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1971.tb50306.x
Subject(s) - alcoholic cardiomyopathy , alcohol , medicine , sudden death , public health , psychiatry , cardiomyopathy , medical emergency , cardiology , heart failure , biology , pathology , biochemistry
Alcoholism and heavy drinking are a grave public‐health problem throughout Australia, and are responsible for 3% of all deaths. A summary is given of the ways in which alcohol can kill, and attention is drawn to two little‐recognized, fairly common ways in which alcohol can cause sudden death. —. by cardiomyopathy, and by an interaction of relatively small doses of alcohol and psychotropic drugs.