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Mortality due to alcohol-related causes in Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome and alcohol-related dementia

Age- and sex-adjusted cumulative mortality due to alcohol-related causes in patients with Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (WKS) and alcohol-related dementia (ARD) from a nationwide register study in Finland. Cumulative mortality was calculated in the presence of competing events, where other causes of death were considered competing risks. Abbreviation: HR: hazard ratio. (Source: Palm A, Talaslahti T, Vataja R, et al. Antipsychotic use and mortality in persons with alcohol-related dementia or Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome: a nationwide register study in Finland. J Clin Med 2023;12[13]:4263. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)

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