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Query: UMLS:C0030305 (pancreatitis)
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The mortality and the causes of death have been studied in a cohort consisting of 1548 male alcoholics in Stockholm. During the period 1969-1981 there were 542 cases of death in this population. The mortality rates were triple those for males in Stockholm generally. Using the official causes of death there was a highly significant excess mortality in the following diagnostic groups: Cancer in the upper digestive region, primary hepatic cancer, cirrhosis in the liver, pancreatitis, pneumonia, alcoholism and alcoholic poisoning, suicides and other causes of violent death as well as ischemic heart disease. The underlying and contributing causes of death on the death certificates were reclassified according to ICD-rules using clinical records and autopsy protocols. It was found that the underlying cause of death was incorrect in 21.8% of the cases. Important information was withheld in further 19.8%. After validation there was no longer any excess mortality in ischemic heart disease. The number of alcohol-related diagnoses, i.e. alcoholic cardiomyopathy, cirrhosis and fatty liver with alcoholism and alcoholic intoxication, was much greater. It is concluded that there is a underreporting of alcohol-related diseases and injuries which has a great influence on the reliability of death statistics.
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PMID:Validation of diagnoses on death certificates for male alcoholics in Stockholm. 358 75

Systolic time intervals corrected for heart rate were measured non invasively in 12 male patients (32 to 59 years) with chronic calcifying pancreatitis of alcoholic origin and compared with 24 normal subjects without evidence for chronic alcoholism or heart disease. Systolic time intervals (in detail: the time from the beginning of QRS to the first heart sound (QS1), the isovolumic contraction time (IVCT), the total electromechanical systolic interval (QS2c), the pre-ejection period (PEPc), the left ventricular ejection time (LVETc) and the ratio PEPc/LVETc) in patients with chronic calcifying pancreatitis were not different when compared with healthy man. Therefore we conclude, that the amount of alcohol that induced a chronic calcifying pancreatitis was not able to alter systolic time intervals as seen in an alcoholic cardiomyopathy.
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PMID:[Systolic time intervals in chronic calcifying pancreatitis caused by alcohol abuse]. 686 22