@article{ref1,
title="Causes of death in a cohort of 50,465 young men--validity of recorded suicide as underlying cause of death",
journal="Scandinavian journal of social medicine",
year="1991",
author="Allebeck, P. and Allgulander, C. and Henningsohn, L. and Jakobsson, S. W.",
volume="19",
number="4",
pages="242-247",
abstract="We studied causes of death in a cohort of all young males (n = 50,465) conscripted for military service in 1969-70. Six hundred eighty three deaths occurred in the cohort during the follow-up through 1983. Injury-related deaths accounted for 75% of all deaths. Of these, 38% were definite suicides, 10% undetermined suicides and 30% motor vehicle accidents. The validity of officially recorded causes of death was studied by scrutinizing all death certificates (n = 683) and forensic reports, including police reports, toxicological and histological data, from a sample (n = 322) of deaths with unclear circumstances. Of 161 officially recorded suicides (E950-959), only one case was reevaluated into poisoning, &quot;undetermined&quot; (E980). Of 47 cases officially recorded &quot;undetermined&quot; (E980-989), 9 were reevaluated into definite suicide (E950-959) although we believe that this is still an underestimation of &quot;true&quot; suicide cases. An alcohol concentration of more than 0.1 g% was found in 45% of all violent deaths (E800-999), 34% of all suicides and 60% of all &quot;undetermined&quot; deaths. We conclude that the causes of death in most cases of injury related death in young age are recorded with high accuracy. Reevaluation of recorded deaths from &quot;undetermined&quot; causes revealed a number of definite suicides, although the &quot;true&quot; number of suicides is difficult to assess even after close scrutiny of the information available.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0300-8037",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}