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. 

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Chronic

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All-Cause Mortality and Morbidity
  1. Alcohol Consumption and Lung Cancer Risk: A Pooled Analysis from the International Lung Cancer Consortium and the Synergy Study
    Brenner H, Brenner DR, Fehringer G, Zhang Z-F, Lee Y-CA, Meyers T, Straif K. Cancer Epidemiology. 58, 25-32.
    Date: 2019
  2. Lifetime Alcohol Intake and Pancreatic Cancer Incidence and Survival: Findings from the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study
    Jayasekara H, English DR, Hodge AM, Room R, Hopper JL, Milne RL, MacInnis RJ. Cancer Causes & Control. CCC, 1-9.
    Date: 2019
  3. Lifetime Alcohol Use Patterns and Risk of Diabetes Onset in the National Alcohol Survey
    Kerr WC, Ye Y, Williams E, Lui CK, Greenfield TK, Lown EA. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 43(2), 262-269.
    Date: 2019
  4. Smoking, Alcohol Consumption, and Risks for Biliary Tract Cancer and Intrahepatic Bile Duct Cancer
    Makiuchi T, Sobue T, Kitamura T, Sawada N, Iwasaki M, Yamaji T, Tsugane S. Journal of Epidemiology. 29(5), 180-186.
    Date: 2019
  5. Conventional and Genetic Evidence on Alcohol and Vascular Disease Etiology: A Prospective Study of 500,000 Men and Women in China
    Millwood IY, Walters RG, Mei XW, Guo Y, Yang L, Bian Z, Peto R. The Lancet. 393(10183), 1831-1842.
    Date: 2019
  6. Alcohol Intake and Colorectal Cancer Risk in the Multiethnic Cohort Study
    Park S-Y, Wilkens LR, Setiawan VW, Monroe KR, Haiman CA, Le Marchand L. American Journal of Epidemiology. 188(1), 67-76.
    Date: 2019
  7. Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Common Cancers: Evidence from a Cohort of Adults from the UK
    Betts G, Ratschen E, Opazo Breton M, Grainge MJ. Journal of public health (Oxford, England). 40(3), 540-548.
    Date: 2018
  8. Life Course Socioeconomic Position, Alcohol Drinking Patterns in Midlife, and Cardiovascular Mortality: Analysis of Norwegian Population-Based Health Surveys
    Degerud E, Ariansen I, Ystrom E, Graff-Iversen S, Høiseth G, Mørland J, Næss Ø. PLoS Medicine. 15(1), e1002476.
    Date: 2018
  9. Alcohol Consumption and Lung Cancer Risk in Never Smokers: A Pooled Analysis of Case-Control Studies
    García Lavandeira JA, Ruano-Ravina A, Kelsey KT, Torres-Durán M, Parente-Lamelas I, Leiro-Fernández V, Barros-Dios JM. European Journal of Public Health. 28(3), 521-527.
    Date: 2018
  10. Associations of Alcohol Intake, Smoking, Physical Activity and Obesity with Survival Following Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis by Stage, Anatomic Site and Tumor Molecular Subtype
    Jayasekara H, English DR, Haydon A, Hodge AM, Lynch BM, Rosty C, MacInnis RJ. International Journal of Cancer. 142(2), 238-250.
    Date: 2018
  11. Alcohol Use Patterns and Risk of Diabetes Onset in the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth Cohort
    Kerr WC, Williams E, Li L, Lui CK, Ye Y, Greenfield TK, Lown EA. Preventive Medicine. 109, 22-27.
    Date: 2018
  12. The Association of Lifetime Alcohol Use with Mortality and Cancer Risk in Older Adults: A Cohort Study
    Kunzmann AT, Coleman HG, Huang W-Y, Berndt SI. PLoS Medicine. 15(6), e1002585.
    Date: 2018
  13. Connecting the Dots Between Breast Cancer, Obesity and Alcohol Consumption in Middle-Aged Women: Ecological and Case Control Studies
    Miller ER, Wilson C, Chapman J, Flight I, Nguyen AM, Fletcher C, Ramsey I. BMC Public Health. 18(1), 460-414.
    Date: 2018
  14. Association of Longitudinal Alcohol Consumption Trajectories with Coronary Heart Disease: A Meta-Analysis of Six Cohort Studies Using Individual Participant Data
    O'Neill D, Britton A, Hannah MK, Goldberg M, Kuh D, Khaw KT, Bell S. BMC medicine. 16(1), 124.
    Date: 2018
  15. Alcohol Intake in Relation to Non-Fatal and Fatal Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke: Epic-CVD Case-Cohort Study
    Ricci C, Wood A, Muller D, Gunter MJ, Agudo A, Boeing H, Ferrari P. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). 361, k934.
    Date: 2018
  16. Sex-Specific Associations Between Alcohol Consumption and Incidence of Hypertension: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Cohort Studies
    Roerecke M, Tobe SW, Kaczorowski J, Bacon SL, Vafaei A, Hasan OSM, Rehm J. Journal of the American Heart Association. 7(13).
    Date: 2018
  17. Relation of Alcohol Consumption to Risk of Heart Failure in Patients Aged 65 to 84 Years with Hypertension
    Sahle BW, Owen AJ, Wing LMH, Beilin LJ, Nelson MR, Jennings GLR, Reid CM. The American Journal of Cardiology. 122(8), 1352-1358.
    Date: 2018
  18. Awareness of the Link Between Alcohol Consumption and Cancer Across the World: A Review
    Scheideler JK, Klein WMP. Cancer Epidemiology: Biomarkers & Prevention. 27(4), 429-437.
    Date: 2018
  19. Smoking, Alcohol and Cancer Mortality in Eastern European Men: Findings from the PRIVMORT Retrospective Cohort Study
    Stefler D, Horvat P, Irdam D, Azarova A, Murphy M, McKee M, Bobak M. International Journal of Cancer. 143, 1128-1133.
    Date: 2018
  20. Racial Differences in the Relationship Between Tobacco, Alcohol, and the Risk of Head and Neck Cancer: Pooled Analysis of United States Studies in the INHANCE Consortium
    Voltzke KJ, Lee Y-CA, Zhang Z-F, Zevallos JP, Yu G-P, Winn DM, Olshan AF. Cancer Causes & Control. 29(7), 619-630.
    Date: 2018
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