[Effect of alcohol consumption and hepatobiliary pathology on morbidity with temporary loss of work capacity among workers of a brewery].

Among brewery workers diseases of the hepatobiliary system are more common in persons directly engaged in the field of production and regularly consuming liquor and beer. Chronic liver and biliary tract diseases contribute to an increase in morbidity with temporary loss of working capacity, prolong the period of treatment, on the whole, and in traumatic diseases in particular. Expenditure on temporary loss of working capacity per 1 patient among those consuming liquor was 32.8% higher than that among abstainers, and in the presence of hepatobiliary pathology 70% higher than in persons without it.