Smoking in a forensic psychiatric service: a survey of inpatients' views.

Smoking in a forensic psychiatric service: a survey of inpatients' views Very little is known concerning the views and beliefs of psychiatric inpatients about smoking in hospital. We conducted a survey of inpatients from the forensic wards of a large independent psychiatric hospital using a structured interview to collect data about their views on smoking. Of 102 patients eligible to participate, 45 (44.

Trauma in cirrhosis: an indicator of the pattern of alcohol abuse in different societies.

While some morbidities associated with the excessive use of alcohol are related to the total amount of alcohol consumed--cirrhosis being an example--other pathologies, such as trauma and those of psycho-social origin, are mainly related to the frequency of acute alcoholic intoxication rather than to the total amount consumed. The balance between these two types of alcohol-associated morbidities can provide an indication of the relative frequency of intoxication, and thus of the pattern of alcohol abuse in a population. Since trauma is highly associated with acute alcoholic intoxication, the prevalence of bone fractures was determined in cirrhotics in nine countries.

Variation in mortality from ischemic heart disease in relation to alcohol and milk consumption.

A simple correlation analysis of data for 19 Western countries confirmed previously reported findings that the rate of mortality from ischemic heart disease (IHD) varies inversely with total alcohol consumption and positively with the consumption of unfermented milk proteins. However, when milk protein consumption was held constant in a multiple-partial correlation analysis, the association between total alcohol consumption and the IHD mortality rate was reduced to non-significance. In contrast, when alcohol consumption was held constant there was little effect on the high correlation between the mortality rate and the consumption of milk proteins.