Alcohol has long been known as a risk factor for disease. The 1990 Global Burden of
Disease (GBD) study (Murray and Lopez 1996a, 1996b) identified alcohol as one of the …

Aim: To make quantitative estimates of the burden of disease attributable to alcohol in the
year 2000 on a global basis. Design: Secondary data analysis. Measurements: Two …

Alcohol has been identified as one of the most important risk factors in the burden
experienced as a result of disease. The objective of the present contribution is to establish a …

Aims To describe the volume of alcohol consumption and patterns of drinking in the World
Health Organization (WHO) European regions in 2002 and to estimate quantitatively the …

Alcoholic beverages can be viewed from a number of perspectives. To a market economist,
beer, wine, spirits and other alcoholic beverages are one more category of consumer …

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are about 2 billion people
worldwide consuming alcoholic beverages and 76.3 million with diagnosed alcohol use …

Aims This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of life‐time abstainers, former drinkers
and current drinkers, adult per‐capita consumption of alcohol and pattern of drinking scores …

Abstract Since the original Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) for alcohol consumption as
part of the Global Burden of Disease Study for 1990, there had been regular updates of …

Alcohol consumption is a risk factor for many chronic diseases and conditions. The average
volume of alcohol consumed, consumption patterns, and quality of the alcoholic beverages …

Objective: To conduct an overview of alcohol-related health consequences and to estimate
relative risk for chronic consequences and attributable fractions for acute consequences …