Alcohol is the major commination to the world which is causing serious and various ailments

to human health.
Alcohol is the major global threat causing various disabilities to the humankind. Around three
billion people are consuming alcohol globally consumption always be dissimilar across
gender, race, ethnicity. Across the globe, men consume more alcohol than women, and
women in more developed countries drink more than women developing countries. Most of
the people agreed that social occasions like festivals, parties or ceremonies are the main cause
of consuming alcohol. Many of the alcohol consumers outlined that they drank alcohol in
commercial settings (retail stores, liquor shops, restaurants). 50% of the patients consume
alcohol at home. Most common excuse of people for consuming alcohol was to reduce pain
and to induce sleep. Habituation and peer pressure (when with friends or in social
events/occasions) are said to be the key reasons for alcohol use by 42 % and 46 %,
respectively. Socio-demographic characteristics like age, gender, family type, educational
status, economic-status, marital status, occupation etc., are predominately affecting the social
health of the community. Moreover, the alcohol attributable fraction is largest for liver
diseases particularly cirrhosis Consuming alcohol is the leading health-related risk factor for
un-protective sex, abnormal weight, smoking and to add further, alcohol addiction leads to
uneven crime rate, road-mishaps, lack of willingness to work and physical, parental, partner
and child abuse. Therefore, there is a immense need to draw the attention of the stake holders
to initiate the preventive action to reduce the burden on the society and also it is necessary to
understand the social and economic costs of this disease. We undertook a study to estimate
the frequencies of socio-demographic characteristics among alcoholic liver disease patients of
2017, in a tertiary care hospital, Kakinada.
The Retrospective observational study of Alcoholic Liver Disease patients admitted in
Government General Hospital, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh in the year 2017. The study was
conducted for the period of 2 months in ICMR,RMRC Epidemiology department,
Bhubaneswar. The data of all the 146 patients who were admitted in the year 2017 were
collected from the medical record department.

For the purpose of the study, we have divided all the 148 patients into three levels based on
their rate of alcohol intake as per their social histories. The three categories are:
1.Mild- Mild level intakes less or equals to 2 drinks per day(12)
2.Moderate- Moderate level intakes between the range of 3-5 drinks per day(12)
3.Severe- Severe level intakes more than 5 drinks per day or are known to abuse alcohol for a
chronic period(12)
Among 146 participants, 97 patients were consuming alcohol moderately with 66.40%, where
29 patients consuming mildly with 19.90% and 20 patients consuming severely with 13.70%.

The retrospective observational study of the demographic characteristics of Alcoholic liver

disease patients in 2017 in a tertiary care hospital, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh is carried out
and reported. From our study we have concluded that middle aged individuals between the
age 35-49 are most commonly or likely to suffer from ALD. As already discussed about
education significance in individual’s life style, people who ended their education in primary
level are mostly consuming alcohol and also effected by ALD due to lack of apprehension on
the effects of severe alcohol consumption.
People belonging to rural area and people in the below poverty line whose income is less than
1 lakh are more likely to suffer from ALD. Smoking is a relatable risk factor for the ALD
patients. There is immense use of stake holders to understand the social and economic cost of
the disease and should initiate the preventive measures to reduce the burden of the society.