Mortality and Morbidity

Even in low and moderate amounts, drinking alcohol increases the risk of chronic diseases, such as various cancers, and coronary heart disease, illnesses, injuries and disabilities, and causes harms that extend beyond the drinker to include family, friends and the larger community. Estimates of alcohol-related morbidity and mortality rates also consider quantity and frequency of consumption to determine how drinking affects a person’s health. 

Acute

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Chronic

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All-Cause Mortality and Morbidity
  1. Key Studies of Alcohol and Disease
    Rehm J, Shield KD. Alcohol: Science Policy and Public Health (pp. 13-23). London, UK: Oxford University Press. .
    Date: 2013 (archived)
  2. Racial and Ethnic Differences in All-Cause Mortality Risk According to Consumption Patterns in the National Alcohol Surveys
    Kerr WC, Greenfield TK, Bond J, Ye Y, Rehm J. American Journal of Epidemiology. 174(7), 769-778.
    Date: 2011 (archived)
  3. The Combined Effect of Smoking Tobacco and Drinking Alcohol on Cause- Specific Mortality: A 30-Year Cohort Study
    Hart CL, Davey Smith G, Gruer L, Watt GCM. BMC Public Health. 10, 789.
    Date: 2010 (archived)
  4. The Preventable Causes of Death in the United States: Comparative Risk Assessment of Dietary, Lifestyle, and Metabolic Risk Factors
    Danaei G, Ding EL, Mozaffarian D, Taylor B, Rehm J, Murray CJ, . PLoS Medicine. 6(4), e1000058.
    Date: 2009 (archived)
  5. Alcohol and Russian Mortality: A Continuing Crisis
    Leon DA, Shkolnikov VM, McKee M. Addiction. .
    Date: 2009 (archived)
  6. Health Effects from Drinking: Type Severity, and Associated Drinking Patterns Based on Qualitative and Quantitative Questions in a Methodological Survey
    Lown EA, Greenfield TK, Rogers JD. Substance Use and Misuse. 42(5), 793-810.
    Date: 2007 (archived)
  7. Alcohol-Caused Mortality in Australia and Canada: Scenario Analyses Using Different Assumptions About Cardiac Benefit
    Stockwell T, Chikritzhs T, Bostrom A, Fillmore KM, Kerr WC, Rehm J, . Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 68(3), 345-352.
    Date: 2007 (archived)
  8. Moderate Alcohol Use and Reduced Mortality Risk: Systematic Error in Prospective Studies
    Fillmore KM, Kerr WC, Stockwell T, Chikritzhs T, Bostrom A. Addiction Research and Theory. 14(2), 101-132.
    Date: 2006 (archived)
  9. Motor Vehicle Traffic Crashes as a Leading Cause of Death in the United States, 2003 (No. Dot Hs 810 568)
    Subramanian R. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Center for Statistics and Analysis. Washington, DC. .
    Date: 2006 (archived)
  10. A Meta-Analysis of Alcohol Consumption and the Risk of 15 Diseases
    Corrao G, Bagnardi V, Zambon A, La Vecchia C. Preventive Medicine. 38, 613-619.
    Date: 2004 (archived)
  11. How Stable is the Risk Curve Between Alcohol and All-Cause Mortality and What Factors Influence the Shape?
    Gmel G, Gutjahr E, Rehm J. European Journal of Epidemiology. 18, 631-642.
    Date: 2003 (archived)
  12. Alcohol-Related Morbidity and Mortality
    Rehm J, Gmel G, Sempos CT, Trevisan M. Alcohol Research and Health. 27(1), 39-51.
    Date: 2003 (archived)
  13. The Relationship of Average Volume of Alcohol Consumption and Patterns of Drinking to Burden of Disease — An Overview
    Rehm J, Room R, Graham K, Monteiro M, Gmel G, Sempos CT. Addiction. 98(10), 1209-1228.
    Date: 2003 (archived)
  14. Abstinence from Alcohol and Mortality Risk in Prospective Studies: Potential Source of Bias
    Fillmore KM, Kerr WC, Bostrom A. Nordisk Alkohol & Narkotikatidskrift. 19(4), 295-316.
    Date: 2002 (archived)
  15. Individual Risk of Alcohol-Related Disease and Problems
    Greenfield TK. International Handbook of Alcohol Problems and Dependence (pp. 413-437). New York: John Wiley. .
    Date: 2001 (archived)
  16. Relation Between Average Alcohol Consumption and Disease: An Overview
    Gutjahr E, Gmel G, Rehm J. European Addiction Research. 7(3), 117-127.
    Date: 2001 (archived)
  17. 10th Special Report to the United States Congress on Alcohol and Health: Highlights from Current Research
    Secretary of Health and Human Services. [NIH Publication No. 00-1583]National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD. .
    Date: 2000 (archived)
  18. The Quantification of Drug Caused Morbidity and Mortality in Australia 1995
    English DR, Holman CDAJ, Milne E, Winter MG, Hulse GK, Codde JP, . Canberra, Australia: Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health. .
    Date: 1995 (archived)
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