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The Compendium only examines this single alcohol-related disease. As mentioned
above, cirrhosis can be caused by Hepatitis B, C and D and other genetic disorders
such as diabetes or Wilson‟s disease, so alcohol may not be a factor for all people dying
of chronic liver disease. There are also other alcohol-related causes of death. It is
possible to examine this wider range of alcohol-related causes of death using the cause
of death from the Public Health Mortality File. The causes of death covered by this are
given in Table 417 on page 813. The total number of deaths (over all ages) registered
over the three year period 2007-2009 and the average annual directly standardised
mortality rate (DSR) per 100,000 persons are given in Table 153 for men and women
respectively. It can be seen that the total number of deaths were small; only 92 in total
with an average of 23 deaths per year in men and seven deaths per year in women. The
95% confidence intervals are given for the DSRs and it is more important to examine
these rather than the actual DSRs as, due to the small number of deaths, the confidence
intervals are wide suggesting uncertainty associated with the DSR estimates.
Of the 69 deaths for men, 29 were registered during 2009 with 19 registered in 2007 and
21 in 2007. The majority of these deaths were due to alcoholic liver disease (n=57) or
mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol (n=8) which includes acute
intoxication, harmful use and dependence syndrome, and a further four deaths were
classified as accidental poisoning by and exposure to alcohol. All the alcohol-related
deaths for women were due to alcoholic liver disease (n=16) or mental and behavioural
disorders due to use of alcohol (n=7).
Table 153: Deaths from alcohol-related diseases and medical conditions in Hull, 2007-
2009
Locality Deaths from alcohol-related diseases and medical conditions in Hull 2007-09
Men Women
Total number Average annual DSR Total number Average annual DSR
2007-2009 per 100,000 men 2007-2009 per 100,000 women
North 20 23.6 (14.3 to 36.5) 3 3.7 (0.7 to 11.0)
East 22 14.6 (9.1 to 22.2) 4 2.9 (0.8 to 7.5)
West 27 16.4 (10.8 to 24.0) 16 10.5 (5.9 to 17.2)
HULL 69 17.2 (13.4 to 21.8) 23 6.0 (3.8 to 9.1)
8.8.7 Attitudes Towards Alcohol
The local 2007 Health and Lifestyle Survey and the Social Capital Surveys asked survey
responders about their perceived impact on health of reducing the amount of alcohol
consumed. The information is presented in section 8.3 on page 244 from the Social
Capital Survey 2009, with additional information examining differences among the
genders, age groups, Localities and deprivation quintiles available in the Social Capital
Survey 2009 report at www.hullpublichealth.org.
Further information on factors influencing the prevalence of never drinking alcohol,
excessive weekly units, binge drinking or excessively weekly units and/or binge drinking
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