1 GBD 2020 Alcohol Collaborators. Populationlevel risks of alcohol consumption by amount,
geography, age, sex, and year: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study …

5 Wells JC, Sawaya AL, Wibaek R, et al. The double burden of malnutrition: aetiological
pathways and consequences for health. Lancet 2019; published online Dec 15. https://doi …

Alcohol is a psychoactive substance with toxic and dependence-producing properties, which
is consumed worldwide. More than 2 billion people, or about three of ten individuals, are …

The WHO Global Monitoring Framework for Non-Communicable Diseases includes an
ambitious global target of a 10% reduction in the harmful use of alcohol by 2025. 1 A …

However, to devise such guidelines is challenging because alcohol is linked to poor health
in various and complex ways. Injury, suicide, and assault, for example, are associated with …

The overall risks and harms resulting from alcohol consumption have been systematically
assessed and are well documented. According to the latest WHO estimates, 1 alcohol …

Alcohol is a major contributor to the global burden of disease, 1 adding to inequities in
health2 and life expectancy and affecting disproportionately drinkers of lower …

Comment www. thelancet. com Vol 394 October 19, 2019 1397 to implement effective
alcohol policy. 12 Second, digital expansion, particularly social media platforms and the …

Most of the world's population abstains from alcohol. 1 This is good news for both the public
health community, which seeks to reduce the harm caused by alcohol, and for industry …

We synthesised data from 694 sur veys and 592 prospective and retrospec tive studies to
estimate the global burden of disease attributable to alcohol use. As part of that analysis, we …