Alcohol intake and cause-specific mortality: conventional and genetic evidence in a prospective cohort study of 512 000 adults in China

IY Millwood, PK Im, D Bennett, P Hariri… - The Lancet Public …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Genetic variants that affect alcohol use in East Asian populations could help
assess the causal effects of alcohol consumption on cause-specific mortality. We aimed to …

Underestimation of alcohol consumption in cohort studies and implications for alcohol's contribution to the global burden of disease

T Stockwell, J Zhao, A Sherk, J Rehm, K Shield… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background and aims Estimated alcohol consumption from national self‐report surveys is
often only 30–40% of official estimates based on sales or taxation data. Global burden of …

A systematic comparison of the global comparative risk assessments for alcohol

BR Chrystoja, J Rehm, J Manthey, C Probst… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To compare systematically the alcohol‐attributable mortality and burden of disease
estimates for 2016 from a recent study by Shield and colleagues and the Global Burden of …

[HTML][HTML] A public health approach to alcohol use and its related harms in Iran

M Shokoohi, A Rahimi-Movaghar, A Noroozi… - The Lancet Public …, 2019 - thelancet.com
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Breaking the vicious circle of determinants and consequences of harmful alcohol use

V Poznyak, B Saraceno, IS Obot - Bulletin of the World Health …, 2005 - SciELO Public Health
Heavy drinking has been known for centuries to be a health hazard and cause of death.
Efforts to quantify the disease burden associated with different risk factors clearly …

Huge variation in Russian mortality rates 1984–94: artefact, alcohol, or what?

DA Leon, L Chenet, VM Shkolnikov, S Zakharov… - The lancet, 1997 - thelancet.com
Background According to published data, between 1984 and 1994 mortality rates in Russia
initially underwent a rapid decline followed by an even steeper increase. In 1994, male life …

[HTML][HTML] What's next for WHO's global strategy to reduce the harmful use of alcohol?

DH Jernigan, PJ Trangenstein - Bulletin of the World Health …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In its Global action plan for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases 2013–
2030, WHO set a goal of reducing harmful use of alcohol by 10% by 2025. We agree with …

Commentary: Alcohol, coronary heart disease and public health: which evidence-based policy

P Bovet, F Paccaud - International Journal of Epidemiology, 2001 - academic.oup.com
ALCOHOL, CHD AND PUBLIC HEALTH 735 of disease that can be improved or worsened
by alcohol. 17 Moderate alcohol intake reduces the relative risk of CHD and ischaemic …

Alcohol-use disorders

MA Schuckit - The Lancet, 2009 - thelancet.com
Alcohol dependence and alcohol abuse or harmful use cause substantial morbidity and
mortality. Alcohol-use disorders are associated with depressive episodes, severe anxiety …

Effect of alcohol consumption on systemic markers of inflammation

A Imhof, M Froehlich, H Brenner, H Boeing, MB Pepys… - The Lancet, 2001 - thelancet.com
Background Epidemiological studies suggest that light to moderate alcohol intake is
associated with lower all-cause mortality than abstention or heavy alcohol intake, primarily …