… any diagnosed chronic diseases affecting their daily life. Diseases were coded into 17 main
categories according to the Finnish edition of the International Classification of Diseases (25)…

… It is also likely that there are veterans with TUD and/or AUD who were not identified for
the present study because tobacco or alcohol use diagnoses were not documented by their …

… use of alcohol causes enormous morbidity and mortality worldwide, but the health effects of
alcohol use … reflect the potentially competing effects of alcohol on several chronic diseases. …

… Alcohol use has been associated with increased risk of traumatic injury in a variety of settings
such as traffic accidents, accidents in professional and recreational contexts, falls, arson, …

… alcoholic beverages, physical inactivity, and unhealthy dietary practices contribute significantly
to preventable chronic disease … diseases and injuries, cigarette smoking, risky drinking of …

… to heavy alcohol use. We focused on mortality from the following chronic diseases that are
in large part (c. >20%) attributable to alcohol: liver cirrhosis and other liver disease; cancers of …

… and analyses stratified by presence of chronic diseases were performed. ‘Other psychiatric …
Chronic disease’ was defined as having been given at least one diagnosis of chronic disease …

… for each disease whether it interferes with their daily activities. More complex indices, such
as the “Index of Coexisting Disease”, measures the severity of 14 chronic diseases and the …

… moderate alcohol on various types of chronic disease have … of mental health disorders on
alcohol use should also not be … of chronic diseases including hypertension, heart diseases and …

… , even modest alcohol consumption can lead … alcohol use and the relationship to common
health problems in late life and suggests a model for examining the interaction of alcohol use …