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 and Risk of Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women: An Analysis of Etiological Heterogeneity by Multiple Tumor Characteristics
    Falk RT, Maas P, Schairer C, Chatterjee N, Mabie JE, Cunningham C, Ziegler RG. American Journal of Epidemiology. 180(7), 705-717.
    Date: 2014
  2. Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Melanoma and Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer in the Women's Health Initiative
    Kubo JT, Henderson MT, Desai M, Wactawski-Wende J, Stefanick ML, Tang JY. Cancer Causes & Control. 25(1), 1-10.
    Date: 2014
  3. Tobacco, Alcohol, and Cancer in Low- and High-Income Countries
    Lee Y-CA, Hashibe M. Annals of Global Health. 80(5), 378-383.
    Date: 2014
  4. Alcohol and Cardiovascular Health: The Dose Makes the Poison…Or the Remedy
    O’Keefe JHMD, Bhatti SKMD, Bajwa AMD, DiNicolantonio JJP, Lavie CJMD. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 89(3), 382-393.
    Date: 2014
  5. Alcohol Consumption and Breast Cancer Risk Among Women in Three Sub-Saharan African Countries
    Qian F, Ogundiran T, Hou N, Ndom P, Gakwaya A, Jombwe J, Huo D. PloS One. 9(9), e106908.
    Date: 2014
  6. Alcohol Consumption, Drinking Patterns, and Ischemic Heart Disease: A Narrative Review of Meta-Analyses and a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Impact of Heavy Drinking Occasions on Risk for Moderate Drinkers
    Roerecke M, Rehm J. BMC Medicine. 12(1), 182-182.
    Date: 2014
  7. Alcohol and Smoking and Subsequent Risk of Prostate Cancer in Japanese Men: The Japan Public Health Center‐Based Prospective Study
    Sawada N, Inoue M, Iwasaki M, Sasazuki S, Yamaji T, Shimazu T, Tsugane S. International Journal of Cancer. 134(4), 971-978.
    Date: 2014
  8. Female Breast Cancer and Alcohol Consumption: A Review of the Literature
    Scoccianti C, Lauby-Secretan B, Bello P-Y, Chajes V, Romieu I. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 46(3 Suppl 1), S16.
    Date: 2014
  9. Methodological Biases in Estimating the Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Breast Cancer: The Role of Drinker Misclassification Errors in Meta‐Analytic Results
    Zeisser C, Stockwell TR, Chikritzhs T. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 38(8), 2297-2306.
    Date: 2014
  10. Alcohol Intake and Risk of Stroke: A Dose–Response Meta-Analysis of Prospective Studies
    Zhang C, Qin Y, Chen Q, Jiang H, Chen X, Xu C, Zhou Y. International Journal of Cardiology. 174(3), 669-677.
    Date: 2014
  11. Adjusting for Unrecorded Consumption in Survey and Per Capita Sales Data: Quantification of Impact on Gender- and Age-Specific Alcohol-Attributable Fractions for Oral and Pharyngeal Cancers in Great Britain
    Meier PS, Meng Y, Holmes J, Baumgerg B, Purshouse R, Hill- McManus D, Brennan A. Alcohol and Alcoholism. 48(2), 241-249.
    Date: 2013 (archived)
  12. Alcohol-Attributable Cancer Deaths and Years of Potential Life Lost in the United States
    Nelson DE, Jarman DW, Rehm J, Greenfield TK, Rey G, Kerr WC, . American Journal of Public Health. 103(4), 641-648.
    Date: 2013 (archived)
  13. The Cardioprotective Association of Average Alcohol Consumption and Ischemic Heart Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
    Roerecke M, Rehm J. Addiction. 107(7), 1246-1270.
    Date: 2012 (archived)
  14. Per Capita Alcohol Consumption and Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality in a Panel of United States from 1950 to 2002
    Kerr WC, Karriker-Jaffe KJ, Subbaraman MS, Ye Y. Addiction. 106(2), 313-322.
    Date: 2011 (archived)
  15. Heavy Drinking Occasions in Relation to Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality: An 11-22 Year Follow-Up of the 1984 and 1995 United States National Alcohol Surveys
    Roerecke M, Greenfield TK, Kerr WC, Bond J, Ye Y, Bondy S, Cohen J, Rehm J. International Journal of Epidemiology. 40(5), 1401-1410.
    Date: 2011 (archived)
  16. Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality and Morbidity Rates in former Drinkers: A Meta-Analysis
    Roerecke M, Rehm J. American Journal of Epidemiology. 173(3), 245-258.
    Date: 2011 (archived)
  17. Alcohol and Non-Communicable Diseases- Cancer, Heart Disease and More
    Room R, Rehm J. Addiction. 106(1), 1-2.
    Date: 2011 (archived)
  18. Relationship of Life-Course Drinking Patterns to Diabetes, Heart Problems, and Hypertension Among Those 40 and Older in the 2005 United States National Alcohol Survey
    Kerr WC, Ye Y. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 71(4), 515-525.
    Date: 2010 (archived)
  19. Cessation of Alcohol Drinking, Tobacco Smoking and the Reversal of Head and Neck Cancer Risk
    Marron M, Boffeta P, Zhang Z-F, Zaridze D, Wünsch-Filho V, Winn DM, Wei Q, Talamini R, Szeszenia-Dabrowska N, Sturgis EM, Smith E, Schwartz SM, Rudnai P, Purdue MP, Olshan AF, Eluf-Neto J, Muscat J, Morgenstern H, Menezes A, McClean M, Matos E, Mates IN, Lissowska J, Levi F, Lazarus P, LaVecchia C, Koifman S, Kelsey K, Herrero R, Hayes RB, Franceschi S, Fernandez L, Fabianova E, Daudt AW, Dal Maso L, Curado MP, Cadoni G, Chen C, Castellsagué X, Boccia S, Benhamou S, Ferro G, Berthiller J, Brennan P, Møller H, Hashibe M. International Journal of Epidemiology. 39(1), 182-196.
    Date: 2010 (archived)
  20. Alcohol Consumption and Cardiovascular Mortality Among United States Adults: 1987 to 2002
    Mukamal KJ, Chen CM, Rao SR, Breslow RA. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 55(13), 1328-1335.
    Date: 2010 (archived)
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