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Epidemiology of unnatural death from suspected poisoning: an autopsy based study

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Author	Journals, Iosr Chakrabarty, P. Tudu, Nikhil Kumar Saren, Asit Baran Dwari, Amiya Kumar Haldar, Dibakar Samanta, Sumana
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Background: Increasing trend of poisoning leading to unnatural premature death in man restraints development of a country. Epidemiology of poisoning can help stakeholders to take measures for prevention of poisoning. Objective: to assess the magnitude of unnatural death due to suspected poisoning and to find out its correlates. Methodology: Record based cross-sectional study was performed in the department of Forensic Medicine of Bankura Sammilani Medical College involving the victims of unnatural death due to suspected poisoning during year 2014. Information pertaining to sociodemographics, place and time of occurrence of poisoning and death after poisoning, background cause of poisoning etc. was collected from the postmortem report, police inquest and treatment history, if any using a predesigned proforma. Results: Overall, 11.12% of unnatural death was due to suspected poisoning. Although in case of poisoning male proportion was higher (57.55%) overall proportional mortality attributed to poisoning was higher in female (13.19% vs 9.96%). Average age was 37.55±16.13 years with highest death in 40-49 years age interval. Around 94.0% cases happened within premises, around 2/3 rd cases during day and mostly ascribed to depression (48.2%) and domestic conflicts (36.69%). Majority of poisoning cases happened during winter (35.0%). Care could be sought in higher number of cases where occurrence took place within premises (87.69%) and in morning (92.16%). Illness was associated with higher age for commiting poisoning. Conclusion: Counseling in different life situations and strict legal enforcement in selling and handling of agrochemicals is the need of the hour to avoid premature loss of human resource from unnatural deaths due to poisoning.
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DOI	10.6084/m9.figshare.1536403.v1
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Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1536403.v1
Language	English
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