Background The goals of our study are to determine the most appropriate model for alcohol
consumption as an exposure for burden of disease, to analyze the effect of the chosen …

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 …

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 …

Differences in diet appear to contribute substantially to the burden of disease in populations,
and therefore changes in diet could lead to major improvements in public health. This is …

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 …

Patients with liver cirrhosis have a high mortality, not just from cirrhosis‐related causes, but
also from other causes. This observation indicates that many patients with cirrhosis have …

Background. The objective of this study is to weigh the risks of moderate alcohol
consumption against its benefits and, as a result, to derive tolerable upper alcohol intake …

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 use and alcohol-related health problems are on the rise in developing
countries. This meta-analysis was conducted to determine the effects of alcohol …

As alcohol marketing remains a highly debated and politically charged issue, we examine
the cumulative impact of alcohol marketing on alcohol initiation and drinking behaviour …