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. 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
  2. Alcohol Policy and Fatal Alcohol-Related Crashes in Finland 2000-2016
    Kalsi J, Selander T, Tervo T. Traffic Injury Prevention. 19(5), 476-479.
    Date: 2018
  3. 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
  4. Drinking Context and Cause of Injury: Emergency Department Studies from 22 Countries
    Korcha RA, Cherpitel CJ, Bond J, Ye Y, Monteiro M, Chou P, Hao W. Journal of Substance Use. 23(3), 240-246.
    Date: 2018
  5. 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
  6. Child Injury Deaths Linked with Adult Alcohol Consumption: A Time Series Analysis
    Laslett A-M, Jiang H, Chikritzhs T. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. 185, 360-366.
    Date: 2018
  7. Space–Time Analyses of Alcohol Outlets and Related Motor Vehicle Crashes: Associations at City and Census Block‐Group Levels
    Lipton R, Ponicki WR, Gruenewald PJ, Gaidus A. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 42(6), 1113-1121.
    Date: 2018
  8. Prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in 4 United States Communities
    May PA, Chambers CD, Kalberg WO, Zellner J, Feldman H, Buckley D, Hoyme HE. JAMA. 319(5), 474.
    Date: 2018
  9. The High Burden of Alcoholic Cirrhosis in Privately Insured Persons in the United States
    Mellinger JL, Shedden K, Winder GS, Tapper E, Adams M, Fontana RJ, Lok ASF. Hepatology. 68(3), 872-882.
    Date: 2018
  10. 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
  11. Association of State Alcohol Policies with Alcohol-Related Motor Vehicle Crash Fatalities Among United States Adults
    Naimi TS, Xuan Z, Sarda V, Hadland SE, Lira MC, Swahn MH, Heeren TC. JAMA Internal Medicine. 178(7), 894.
    Date: 2018
  12. 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
  13. Breathalyzing and Surveying River Users in Australia to Understand Alcohol Consumption and Attitudes Toward Drowning Risk
    Peden AE, Franklin RC, Leggat PA. BMC Public Health. 18(1), 1-18.
    Date: 2018
  14. Global Prevalence of Alcohol Use and Binge Drinking During Pregnancy, and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
    Popova S, Lange S, Probst C, Gmel G, Rehm J. Biochemistry and cell biology = Biochimie et biologie cellulaire. 96(2), 237-240.
    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. Alcohol-Related Risk of Driver Fatalities in Motor Vehicle Crashes: Comparing Data from 2007 and 2013-2014
    Romano E, Torres-Saavedra PA, Calderón Cartagena HI, Voas RB, Ramírez A. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 79(4), 547-552.
    Date: 2018
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. The Effect on Emergency Department Visits of Raised Alcohol Minimum Prices in Saskatchewan, Canada
    Sherk A, Stockwell T, Callaghan RC. Drug and Alcohol Review. 37(S1), S357-S365.
    Date: 2018
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