In order to conduct a comparative risk analysis for alcohol within the Global Burden of
Disease Study (GBD 2000), several questions had to be answered.(1) What are the …

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 …

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 …

Funding: This work was supported by an unrestricted contract from Lundbeck A/S. In
addition, WHO European Region supported the calculations of alcohol-attributable harm; …

The results from the few cohort studies that have measured usual alcohol consumption over
time have not been summarized. We therefore conducted a systematic review and meta …

Objective: Previous meta-analyses of cohort studies indicate a J-shaped relationship
between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality, with reduced risk for low-volume …

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 …

Alcohol consumption, particularly heavier drinking, is an important risk factor for many health
problems and, thus, is a major contributor to the global burden of disease. In fact, alcohol is …

Objectives Using common alcohol consumption categories, to conduct a pooled analysis of
six ongoing large-scale cohort studies in Japan in order to produce concrete estimates of the …

Alcohol has a hormetic physiological behavior that results in either increased or decreased
cardiovascular risk depending on the amount consumed, drinking frequency, pattern of …