Alcoholic cardiomyopathy

alcoholic cardiomyopathy: Disease of CARDIAC MUSCLE resulting from chronic excessive alcohol consumption. Myocardial damage can be caused by: (1) a toxic effect of alcohol; (2) malnutrition in alcoholics such as THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; or (3) toxic effect of additives in alcoholic beverages such as COBALT. This disease is usually manifested by DYSPNEA and palpitations with CARDIOMEGALY and congestive heart failure (HEART FAILURE).

Endpoint definition

Name CARMYOPATHALCO
Long name Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
Hospital Discharge registry ICD-10: I426
Cause of Death registry ICD-10: I426
Level in the ICD-hierarchy 2
First defined in version DF2
Latin name Cardiomyopathia alcoholica

Summary Statistics

Key figures

All Female Male
Number of individuals 65 10 55
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.03 0.01 0.06
Mean age at first event (years) 57.36 53.92 57.99
Case fatality at 5-years (%) 55.38 50.00 56.36

Longitudinal metrics

All Female Male
Median nb. of events per indiv. 1.0 1.0 1.0
Recurrence at 6 months (%) 16.92 - 20.00

Survival analyses between endpoints

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before Alcoholic cardiomyopathy
after Alcoholic cardiomyopathy

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Drugs most likely to be purchased after Alcoholic cardiomyopathy