The incidence of ICU admission in working-aged population was 25% higher in those areas where the annual median income was below the median annual income of €38,775 per inhabitant per year in Finland.

Every third patient admitted to ICU used alcohol excessively or had alcohol-related diseases, and those patients with alcohol-related liver disease had the poorest 1-year survival rate. We found higher long-term mortality in nonalcohol-related admissions, which can be explained by the case mix, including a lower rate of chronic diseases, such as malignancies and coronary artery disease, and a higher rate of low-risk admission diagnoses in the alcohol group.

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