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Research conducted at University of Helsinki has updated our knowledge about addiction medicine

Published in Women's Health Law Weekly, January 20th, 2008

In this recent report, researchers in Helsinki, Finland conducted a study "To assess to what extent alcohol-related mortality has changed by age, sex and education in Finland in 19872003, a period which saw two periods of economic growth, separated by a severe depression (19911995). A register-based follow-up study of all over 15-year-old Finnish men and women."

"Age, sex and education of the participants were measured at the time of the 1985, 1990, 1995 and 2000 censuses. Follow-up for mortality was for 1987--2003. The outcome measure was alcohol-related mortality, which was defined using information on the underlying and contributory causes of death. Among men and...

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