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T1  - Significant decrease in the rate of fatal alcohol poisonings in Finland validated by blood alcohol concentration statistics 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/321171 
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A1  - Kriikku, Pirkko; Ojanperä, Ilkka 
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Y1  - 2020 
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AB  - Background: Alcohol may cause death directly by acute poisoning, as well as induce illnesses or accidents that lead to death. Our research question was whether the current decreasing trend in acute fatal alcohol poisonings in Finland is a real phenomenon or an artefact caused by possible changes in the process of determining the cause of death. Methods: All cases in the national post-mortem toxicology database in which the underlying cause of death was acute alcohol poisoning in 1987-2018 were i... 
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KW  - Alcohol; acute fatal alcoho l poisoning; mortality; medico-legal autopsy; blood alcohol concentration; UNITED-STATES; MORTALITY; PRICES; Mortality; Acute fatal alcohol poisoning; Blood alcohol concentration; DEATHS; TRENDS; Medico-legal autopsy; ETHANOL; CONSUMPTION; 3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health 
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