This report contains new and follow-up metric data relating to the eight main
recommendations of the Lancet Standing Commission on Liver Disease in the UK, which …

Abstract In 1983 the World Health Assembly declared alcohol-related problems to be among
the world's major health concerns. Since then, alcohol consumption has risen in developing …

Alcohol has long been recognised as an important contributor to illness and injury,
accounting for 4% of the global burden of disease. 1 Yet alcohol remains conspicuously …

Background Alcohol is one of the most important risk factors for burden of disease. Objective
To estimate the number of deaths and the years of life lost attributable to alcohol for Canada …

Aims This paper summarizes the relationships between different patterns of alcohol
consumption and various on non‐communicable disease (NCD) outcomes and estimates …

Aims To describe three aspects of the epidemiology of alcohol‐attributable deaths in
Europe, dose, demography and place, and to illustrate how such knowledge can better be …

Background Low-risk limits recommended for alcohol consumption vary substantially across
different national guidelines. To define thresholds associated with lowest risk for all-cause …

The Global Status Report on Alcohol 2004 is a new edition of the Report published by WHO
in 1999. This edition provides an update of the role of alcohol in global health and contains …

Background The health risks associated with moderate alcohol consumption continue to be
debated. Small amounts of alcohol might lower the risk of some health outcomes but …

Background Alcohol-related mortality and morbidity are high in socioeconomically
disadvantaged populations compared with individuals from advantaged areas. It is unclear if …