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. Temporal Changes in Alcohol‐Related Mortality and Morbidity in Australia
    Ogeil RP, Gao CX, Rehm J, Gmel G, Lloyd B. Addiction. 111(4), 626-634.
    Date: 2016
  2. Drinking and Mortality: Long‐Term Follow‐Up of Drinking‐Discordant Twin Pairs
    Sipilä P, Rose RJ, Kaprio J. Addiction. 111(2), 245-254.
    Date: 2016
  3. Do Moderate Drinkers Have Reduced Mortality Risk? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Alcohol Consumption and All-Cause Mortality
    Stockwell T, Zhaom J, Panwarm S, Roemer A, Naimi T, Chikritzhs T. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 277(2), 185.
    Date: 2016
  4. High Alcohol Consumption and the Risk of Renal Damage: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
    Cheungpasitporn W, Thongprayoon C, Kittanamongkolchai W, Brabec BA, O'Corragain OA, Edmonds PJ, Erickson SB. QJM: Monthly journal of the Association of Physicians. 108(7), 539-548.
    Date: 2015
  5. Relationship Between Alcohol-Attributable Disease and Socioeconomic Status, and the Role of Alcohol Consumption in This Relationship: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
    Jones L, Bates G, McCoy E, Bellis MA. BMC Public Health. 15(1), 400.
    Date: 2015
  6. All-Cause Mortality and the Case for Age Specific Alcohol Consumption Guidelines: Pooled Analyses of Up to 10 Population Based Cohorts
    Knott CS, Coombs N, Stamatakis E, Biddulph JP. BMJ: British Medical Journal. 350(feb10 2), h384-h384.
    Date: 2015
  7. Temporal Changes in Alcohol-Related Morbidity and Mortality in Germany
    Kraus L, Pabst A, Piontek D, Gmel G, Shield KD, Frick H, Rehm J. European Addiction Research. 21(5), 262-272.
    Date: 2015
  8. Mortality from Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol Use Disorder: Findings from the Vietnam Experience Study
    Lundin A, Mortensen LH. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 151, 135-143.
    Date: 2015
  9. Association Between Blood Alcohol Concentration and Mortality in Critical Illness
    Stehman CR, Moromizato T, McKane CK, Mogensen KM, Gibbons FK, Christopher KB. Journal of Critical Care. 30(6), 1382-1389.
    Date: 2015
  10. Alcohol Consumption Over Time and Risk of Death: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
    Jayasekara H, English DR, Room R, MacInnis RJ. American Journal of Epidemiology. 179(9), 1049-1059.
    Date: 2014
  11. Alcohol-Attributable Mortality Among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States, 1999-2009
    Landen M, Roeber J, Naimi T, Nielsen L, Sewell M. American Journal of Public Health. 104 Suppl 3(S3), S343-S349.
    Date: 2014
  12. A Systematic Review of the Epidemiology of Unrecorded Alcohol Consumption and the Chemical Composition of Unrecorded Alcohol
    Rehm J, Kailasapillai S, Larsen E, Rehm MX, Samokhvalov AV, Shield KD, Lachenmeier DW. Addiction. 109(6), 880-893.
    Date: 2014
  13. Cause-Specific Mortality Risk in Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
    Roerecke M, Rehm J. International Journal of Epidemiology. 43(3), 906-919.
    Date: 2014
  14. Are Psychosocial Stressors Associated with the Relationship of Alcohol Consumption and All-Cause Mortality?
    Ruf E, Baumert J, Meisinger C, Döring A, Ladwig K-H, investigators MK. BMC Public Health. 14, 312.
    Date: 2014
  15. 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)
  16. 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)
  17. 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)
  18. 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)
  19. Alcohol and Russian Mortality: A Continuing Crisis
    Leon DA, Shkolnikov VM, McKee M. Addiction. .
    Date: 2009 (archived)
  20. 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)
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