Alcohol consumption and all-cause and cause-specific mortality among US adults: prospective cohort study

Y Tian, J Liu, Y Zhao, N Jiang, X Liu, G Zhao, X Wang - BMC medicine, 2023 - Springer
Background Previous studies have shown inconsistent findings regarding the association of
light to moderate alcohol consumption with cause-specific mortality. Therefore, this study …

Alcohol intake and total mortality in 142 960 individuals from the MORGAM Project: a population‐based study

A Di Castelnuovo, S Costanzo, M Bonaccio… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To test the association of alcohol consumption with total and cause‐specific mortality
risk. Design Prospective observational multi‐centre population‐based study. Setting Sixteen …

[HTML][HTML] Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies

AM Wood, S Kaptoge, AS Butterworth, P Willeit… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Low-risk limits recommended for alcohol consumption vary substantially across
different national guidelines. To define thresholds associated with lowest risk for all-cause …

Risk of injury from acute alcohol consumption and the influence of confounders

K Watt, DM Purdie, AM Roche, RJ McClure - Addiction, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To quantify the relationship between acute alcohol consumption and risk of injury, in the
context of other potential confounding factors (ie usual alcohol intake, risk‐taking behaviour …

Association of habitual alcohol intake with risk of cardiovascular disease

KJ Biddinger, CA Emdin, ME Haas, M Wang… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Observational studies have consistently proposed cardiovascular benefits
associated with light alcohol consumption, while recent genetic analyses (ie, mendelian …

Mortality and potential years of life lost attributable to alcohol consumption by race and sex in the United States in 2005

KD Shield, G Gmel, T Kehoe-Chan, DA Dawson… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Alcohol has been linked to health disparities between races in the US;
however, race-specific alcohol-attributable mortality has never been estimated. The …

Moderate alcohol consumption and lower total mortality risk: Justified doubts or established facts?

S Costanzo, G de Gaetano, A Di Castelnuovo… - Nutrition, Metabolism …, 2019 - Elsevier
For almost a century, the scientific community is aware of the J-shaped curve between
alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality. Moderate drinkers seem to live longer than …

Drinking alcohol in moderation is associated with lower rate of all-cause mortality in individuals with higher rather than lower educational level: findings from the …

A Di Castelnuovo, M Bonaccio, S Costanzo… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
The association between socioeconomic status (SES) and alcohol-related diseases has
been widely explored. Less is known, however, on whether the association of moderate …

How stable is the risk curve between alcohol and all-cause mortality and what factors influence the shape? A precision-weighted hierarchical meta-analysis

G Gmel, E Gutjahr, J Rehm - European journal of epidemiology, 2003 - Springer
Objective: To determine the influence of six determining variables on the shape of the risk
curve between alcohol and all-cause mortality. Methods: Data: Based on a systematic …

Why does society accept a higher risk for alcohol than for other voluntary or involuntary risks?

J Rehm, DW Lachenmeier, R Room - BMC medicine, 2014 - Springer
Background Societies tend to accept much higher risks for voluntary behaviours, those
based on individual decisions (for example, to smoke, to consume alcohol, or to ski), than for …