Background and aims Alcohol use is a major contributor to injuries, mortality and the burden
of disease. This review updates knowledge on risk relations between dimensions of alcohol …

Aims As part of a larger study to estimate the global burden of disease and injury attributable
to alcohol: to evaluate the evidence for a causal impact of average volume of alcohol …

Objective: To conduct an overview of alcohol-related health consequences and to estimate
relative risk for chronic consequences and attributable fractions for acute consequences …

Abstract Since the original Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) for alcohol consumption as
part of the Global Burden of Disease Study for 1990, there had been regular updates of …

Alcohol use has been causally linked to more than 200 disease and injury conditions, as
defined by three-digit ICD-10 codes. The understanding of how alcohol use is related to …

Alcohol consumption is a risk factor for many chronic diseases and conditions. The average
volume of alcohol consumed, consumption patterns, and quality of the alcoholic beverages …

Alcohol has long been known as a risk factor for disease. The 1990 Global Burden of
Disease (GBD) study (Murray and Lopez 1996a, 1996b) identified alcohol as one of the …

Aim: To make quantitative estimates of the burden of disease attributable to alcohol in the
year 2000 on a global basis. Design: Secondary data analysis. Measurements: Two …

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 …

Alcohol use is related to a wide variety of negative health outcomes including morbidity,
mortality, and disability. Research on alcohol-related morbidity and mortality takes into …