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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Alcohol-related deaths – latest UK figures for 2006
Health Statistics Quarterly 37 Spring 2008 p. 3




Latest figures on alcohol-related death rates in the UK in 2006 were released on 25 January 2008. Rates in the UK continued to increase, rising from 12.9 deaths per 100,000 population in 2005 to 13.4 in 2006. Rates almost doubled from 6.9 per 100,000 in 1991. The number of alcohol-related deaths more than doubled from 4,144 in 1991 to 8,758 in 2006.

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