The UK's Chief Medical Officers (CMO) on Friday (8 January) changed the guidelines for alcohol consumption, advising now both men and women not to drink more than 14 units per week, or three units on one occasion, in order to limit alcohol harm.
Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, Chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance UK, said: “The low price of high strength alcohol continues to cause colossal damage to the health of our nation. Alcohol is linked to 80 deaths in the UK every day, as well as seven types of cancer and stroke. “To tack...
Willingness to Adhere to Current UK Low-Risk Alcohol Guidelines to Potentially Reduce Dementia Risk: A National Survey of People Aged 50 and OverAlcoholdementiadisease preventionolder peoplerisk reductionBackground: People over 50 are increasing their alcohol intake, potentially increasing their risk of ...
women were classified into the same six categories as men based on their genotypes and study area, regardless of female alcohol intake. This allowed comparison of genotypic effects between men (where genotype were strongly associated with alcohol intake) and women (where alcohol intake was low in ...
Alcoholism is characterised by the regular intake of ≥75 g/day of alcohol.Chronic effects Co-morbidity due to portal hypertension, hepatic failure, hyperoestrogenemia, infections (especially pneumonia) which may be due to alcohol-induced suppression of various immune defences, psychosocial disruption,...
Association between daily alcohol intake and risk of all-cause mortality: a systematic review and meta-analyses. JAMA Netw Open. 2023;6:e236185. PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Piumatti G, Moore SC, Berridge DM, Sarkar C, Gallacher J. The relationship between alcohol use and long-...
Alcohol poisoning occurs where alcohol intake has reached levels such that vital organs such as the brain and heart, begin shutting down, which can lead to a risk of death. 2,200 people per year, or 6 people daily, die due to alcohol poisoning [11]. ...
Guidelines are based on research made in a particular place. While we're talking about alcohol and food intake recommendations, they depend strongly on a product's availability, social conditions, and, very often, tradition. For example, in many countries, it is hard to imagine a wedding ...
This cohort study evaluates the risk of atrial fibrillation associated with habitual alcohol intake in young adults in Korea.
The current study examines the associations between alcohol intake and measures of GM structure and WM microstructure in the brain in a large population sample. We perform a preregistered analysis of multimodal imaging data from the UK Biobank (UKB)42,43,44, which controls for numerous potential ...