Alcohol-Related Mortality

PH908 / 1895

Rosa Parisi, Roger T. Webb, Mathew J. Carr, Kieran J. Moriarty, Elise Kleyn, Christopher E. M. Griffiths, Darren M. Ashcroft

Apr 4, 2022

Clinical-Coded Phenotype

  1. Overview

    Phenotype Type
    Disease or syndrome
    Sex
    Both
    Valid Event Date Range
    01/01/1998 - 03/03/2014
    Coding System
    ICD10 codesICD9 codes
    Data Sources
    CPRD GOLD
    Collections
    ClinicalCodes RepositoryPhenotype Library
    Tags
    No data
    Ontology
    No data

  2. Definition

    IMPORTANCE:

    People diagnosed with psoriasis have an increased risk of premature mortality, but the underlying reasons for this mortality gap are unclear.

    OBJECTIVE:

    To investigate whether patients with psoriasis have an elevated risk of alcohol-related mortality.

    DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS:

    An incident cohort of patients with psoriasis aged 18 years and older was delineated for 1998 through 2014 using the Clinical Practice Research atalink (CPRD) and linked to Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and Office for National tatistics (ONS) mortality records. Patients with psoriasis were matched with up to 20 comparison patients without psoriasis on age, sex, and general practice.

    MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES:

    Alcohol-related deathswere ascertained via the Office for National Statistics mortality records. A stratified Cox proportional hazard model was used to estimate the cause-specific hazard ratio for alcohol-related death, with adjustment for socioeconomic status.

    RESULTS:

    The cohort included 55 537 with psoriasis and 854 314 patients without psoriasis. Median (interquartile) age at index date was 47 (27) years; 408 230 of total patients (44.9%) were men. During a median (IQR) of 4.4 (6.2) years of follow-up, the alcohol-related mortality rate was 4.8 per 10 000 person-years (95%CI, 4.1-5.6; n = 152) for the psoriasis cohort, vs 2.5 per 10 000 (95%CI, 2.4- 2.7; n = 1118) for the comparison cohort. The hazard ratio for alcohol-related death in patients with psoriasis was 1.58 (95%CI, 1.31-1.91), and the predominant causes of alcohol-related deaths were alcoholic liver disease (65.1%), fibrosis and cirrhosis of the liver (23.7%), and mental and behavioral disorders due to alcohol (7.9%).

    CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE:

    People with psoriasis have approximately a 60%greater risk of dying due to alcohol-related causes compared with peers of the same age and sex in the general population. This appears to be a key contributor to the premature mortality gap. These findings call for routine screening, identification and treatment, using the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT-C) in both primary and secondary care to detect alcohol consumption and misuse among people diagnosed with psoriasis.

  3. Implementation

    Implementation

    No data

  4. Clinical Codelist

  5. Publication

    Related publications

    • Rosa Parisi, Roger T. Webb, Mathew J. Carr, Kieran J. Moriarty, Elise Kleyn, Christopher E. M. Griffiths, Darren M. Ashcroft, Alcohol-Related Mortality in Patients With Psoriasis A Population-Based Cohort Study. JAMA Dermatology, 153(12):1256-1262, 2017.

    Citation Example

    Rosa Parisi, Roger T. Webb, Mathew J. Carr, Kieran J. Moriarty, Elise Kleyn, Christopher E. M. Griffiths, Darren M. Ashcroft. PH908 / 1895 - Alcohol-Related Mortality. Phenotype Library [Online]. 04 April 2022. Available from: http://phenotypes.healthdatagateway.org/phenotypes/PH908/version/1895/detail/. [Accessed 22 February 2026]

  6. API

    To Export Phenotype Details:

    FormatAPI
    JSON site_root/api/v1/phenotypes/PH908/version/1895/detail/?format=json
    R Package

    # Download here

    library(ConceptLibraryClient)


    # Connect to API

    client = ConceptLibraryClient::Connection$new(public=TRUE)


    # Get details of Phenotype

    phenotype_details = client$phenotypes$get_detail(
     'PH908',
     version_id=1895
    )

    Py Package

    # Download here

    from pyconceptlibraryclient import Client


    # Connect to API

    client = Client(public=True)


    # Get details of Phenotype

    phenotype_detail = client.phenotypes.get_detail(
     'PH908',
     version_id=1895
    )

    To Export Phenotype Code List:

    FormatAPI
    JSON site_root/api/v1/phenotypes/PH908/version/1895/export/codes/?format=json
    R Package

    # Download here

    library(ConceptLibraryClient)


    # Connect to API

    client = ConceptLibraryClient::Connection$new(public=TRUE)


    # Get codelist of Phenotype

    phenotype_codelist = client$phenotypes$get_codelist(
     'PH908',
     version_id=1895
    )

    Py Package

    # Download here

    from pyconceptlibraryclient import Client


    # Connect to API

    client = Client(public=True)


    # Get codelist of Phenotype

    phenotype_codelist = client.phenotypes.get_codelist(
     'PH908',
     version_id=1895
    )

  7. Version History

    Version IDNameOwnerPublish date
    Alcohol-Related Mortality ieuan.scanlon2022-04-04 07:09