Artigo
Alcohol and violence in the emergency department: a regional report from the WHO collaborative study on alcohol and injuries
Fecha
2008-01-01Registro en:
Salud Publica De Mexico. Cuernavaca: Inst Nacional Salud Publica, v. 50, p. S6-S11, 2008.
0036-3634
S0036-36342008000700003.pdf
S0036-36342008000700003
10.1590/S0036-36342008000700003
WOS:000255972400003
Autor
Borges, Guilherme
Orozco, Ricardo
Cremonte, Mariana
Buzi-Figlie, Neliana [UNIFESP]
Cherpitel, Cheryl
Poznyak, Vladimir
Institución
Resumen
Objective. To determine the relative risk (RR) of non-fatal unintentional and violence-related injury associated with alcohol consumption in three emergency departments in Latin America (2001-2002). Material and Methods. Pair-matched case-crossover was used to obtain RR estimates for alcohol 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 were the main outcomes Results. About 46% of violence-related cases involved alcohol (versus 11.5% for non-violence related cases). The risk of violence-related injury increased with drinking 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 unintentional injuries. Conclusions. Increasing amounts of drinking may have pronounced consequences on the risk of triggering an injury, especially for a violence-related injury. The RR estimates provided here can be useful for new estimates on alcohol and the burden of disease.