" sur les 49 000 décès imputables à la consommation l’alcool, 15 000 sont dus à un cancer* , 12 000 à une maladie cardio-vasculaire, 8 000 à une pathologie digestive, 8 000 à une cause externe (accident, chute, suicide, homicide), 3 000 à des troubles mentaux ou comportementaux, et 3 000 à des causes diverses ;"
Source Les communiqués de presse Institut de cancérologie Gustave Roussy
http://www.igr.fr/fr/page/deces-lies-a-l-alcool-en-2009_5493
Villejuif, le 06 mars 2013 – Sylvie Guérin, Agnès Laplanche, Ariane Dunant et Catherine Hill, du Service de Biostatistique et Epidémiologie de Gustave Roussy, viennent de faire paraitre une étude évaluant le nombre de décès imputables à la consommation d’alcool, en France, en 2009. L’article est paru sur le site Internet de la revue European Journal of Public Health, le 4 mars 2013.
L’étude :
Alcohol-attributable mortality in France
- Sylvie Guérin,
- Agnès Laplanche,
- Ariane Dunant and
- Catherine Hill
+ Author Affiliations
- Correspondence: Sylvie Guérin, Service de Biostatistique et d’Epidémiologie, Institut Gustave Roussy, 94805 Villejuif Cedex, France, Tel: +33 1 42 11 41 36, Fax: +33 1 42 11 52 58, e-mail: guerinrojas@gmail.com
Abstract
Background: Alcohol consumption is high in France. Aim: Estimation of alcohol-attributable mortality in France by sex, age and dose, for year 2009. Method:
We combined survey and sales data to estimate the prevalence of alcohol
consumption by age, sex and dose category. For each
cause of death, the relative risk of death as a
function of dose was obtained from a meta-analysis and combined with
prevalence
data to obtain the attributable fraction; this
fraction multiplied by the number of deaths gave the
alcohol-attributable mortality.
Results: A total of 36 500 deaths
in men are attributable to alcohol in France in 2009 (13% of total
mortality) versus 12 500 in
women (5% of total mortality). Overall, this
includes 15 000 deaths from cancer, 12 000 from circulatory disease,
8000 from
digestive system disease, 8000 from external causes
and 3000 from mental and behavioural disorder. The alcohol-attributable
fractions are 22% and 18% in the population aged 15
to 34 and 35 to 64, respectively, versus 7% among individuals aged 65
or more. Alcohol is detrimental even at a low dose
of 13 g per day, causing 1100 deaths. Conclusion: With
49 000 deaths in France for the year 2009, the alcohol toll is high, and
the effect of alcohol is detrimental even
at low dose. Alcohol consumption is responsible for
a large proportion of premature deaths. These results stress the
importance
of public health policies aimed at reducing alcohol
consumption in France.
