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Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública
2008
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- Alcohol and violence in the emergency department: a regional report from the WHO collaborative study on alcohol and injuries Mariana Cremonte Neliana Buzi-Figlie Vladimir Poznyak Guilherme Borges Ricardo Orozco Cheryl Cherpitel Salud methods epidemiology Latin America emergency service alcohol intoxication Objective. To determine the relative risk (RR) of non-fatalunintentional and violence-related injury associated withalcohol consumption in three emergency departments inLatin America (2001-2002). Material and Methods. Pairmatchedcase-crossover was used to obtain RR estimates foralcohol in non-fatal injuries among 447 patients in Argentina(A), 489 in Brazil (B) and 455 in Mexico (M). Intentional(violence) or unintentional (non-violence) injury status werethe main outcomes Results. About 46% of violence-relatedcases involved alcohol (versus 11.5% for non-violence relatedcases). The risk of violence-related injury increased withdrinking and had an OR= 15.0 (95% confidence interval (CI),5.8-39.1), with an OR= 4.2 (CI= 2.7-6.5) for unintentionalinjuries. Conclusions. Increasing amounts of drinking mayhave pronounced consequences on the risk of triggering aninjury, especially for a violence-related injury. The RR estimatesprovided here can be useful for new estimates on alcoholand the burden of disease 2008 artículo científico 0036-3634 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=10608906 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=106 Salud Pública de México application/pdf Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública Salud Pública de México (México) Num.1 Vol.50