dc.contributor.author | Amundsen, Marie S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Kirkeby, Tine Marita Gjervan | |
dc.contributor.author | Giri, Samita | |
dc.contributor.author | Koju, R | |
dc.contributor.author | Krishna, SS | |
dc.contributor.author | Ystgaard, Brynjulf | |
dc.contributor.author | Solligård, Erik | |
dc.contributor.author | Risnes, Kari | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-28T07:23:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-04-28T07:23:31Z | |
dc.date.created | 2016-12-19T11:05:42Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Alcohol. 2016, 57 9-14. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0741-8329 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2740032 | |
dc.description.abstract | Recent global burden of disease reports find that a major proportion of global deaths and disability worldwide can be attributed to alcohol use. Thus, it may be surprising that very few studies have reported on the burden of alcohol-related disease in low income settings. The evidence of non-communicable disease (NCD) burden in Nepal was recently reviewed and concluded that data is still lacking, particularly to describe the burden of alcohol-related diseases (ARDs). Therefore, here we report on NCD burden and specifically ARDs, in hospitalized patients at a regional hospital in Nepal. We conducted a retrospective chart-review that included detailed information on all discharged patients during a four month period. A local database that included sociodemographic information and diagnoses at discharge was established. All doctor-assigned discharge diagnoses were retrospectively assigned ICD-10 codes. A total of 1,139 hospitalized adult patients were included in the study and one third of these were NCDs (n = 332). The main NCDs were chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) (n = 148, 45%) and ARDs (n = 57, 17%). Patients with ARD often presented with signs of liver cirrhosis and were typically younger men, with a median age at 43 years, from specific ethnic groups. These data demonstrate that severe alcohol-related organ failure in relatively young men contributed to a high proportion of NCDs in a regional hospital in Nepal. These findings are novel and alarming and warrant further studies that can establish the burden of ARDs and alcohol use in Nepal and other similar low-income countries. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no | * |
dc.title | Non-communicable diseases at a regional hospital in Nepal: Findings of a high burden of alcohol-related disease | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
dc.source.pagenumber | 9-14 | en_US |
dc.source.volume | 57 | en_US |
dc.source.journal | Alcohol | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.alcohol.2016.10.008 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1414911 | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 | |