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  1. The ongoing opioid epidemic and increases in alcohol-related mortality are key public health concerns ... in sex-specific mortality rates for opioid, alcohol, and combined alcohol and opioid poisonings in the USA...

    Authors: Charlotte Buckley, Yu Ye, William C. Kerr, Nina Mulia, Klajdi Puka, Jürgen Rehm and Charlotte Probst
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:405
  2. Alcohol consumption is a leading contributor to death ... not examined the effects of different patterns of alcohol consumption. The study objective was to understand the relationship between different alcohol co...

    Authors: Bhautesh Dinesh Jani, Ross McQueenie, Barbara I. Nicholl, Ryan Field, Peter Hanlon, Katie I. Gallacher, Frances S. Mair and Jim Lewsey
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2021 19:8
  3. Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels are widely used to screen liver disease, and many asymptomatic individuals show elevated ALT levels. As elevated ALT level indicates liver injury, even a small amount of alcohol

    Authors: Dong Hyun Sinn, Danbee Kang, Eliseo Guallar, Yun Soo Hong, Juhee Cho and Geum-Youn Gwak
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:18
  4. Taxation increases which reduce the affordability of alcohol are expected to reduce mortality inequalities. A...

    Authors: Jakob Manthey, Domantas Jasilionis, Huan Jiang, Olga Meščeriakova, Janina Petkevičienė, Ričardas Radišauskas, Mindaugas Štelemėkas and Jürgen Rehm
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:22
  5. Participants from the UK Biobank with detailed information on alcohol use and free of common diseases were included. Daily pure alcohol intake (g/day) was calculated, and ... analyses were performed to evaluate t...

    Authors: Zhenqiu Liu, Ci Song, Chen Suo, Hong Fan, Tiejun Zhang, Li Jin and Xingdong Chen
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:413
  6. Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) affects embryonic development, causing a variable fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) phenotype with neuronal ... and birth defects. We hypothesize that early alcohol-induced ep...

    Authors: P. Auvinen, J. Vehviläinen, H. Marjonen, V. Modhukur, J. Sokka, E. Wallén, K. Rämö, L. Ahola, A. Salumets, T. Otonkoski, H. Skottman, M. Ollikainen, R. Trokovic, H. Kahila and N. Kaminen-Ahola
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:495
  7. Alcohol consumption is an important risk factor for ... relevance to disease risk of drinking patterns and alcohol tolerability, which differ appreciably between Chinese and...

    Authors: Pek Kei Im, Iona Y. Millwood, Christiana Kartsonaki, Yu Guo, Yiping Chen, Iain Turnbull, Canqing Yu, Huaidong Du, Pei Pei, Jun Lv, Robin G. Walters, Liming Li, Ling Yang and Zhengming Chen
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2021 19:216
  8. Excessive alcohol use increases risks of chronic diseases such ... of quality of life and life-years. Alcohol taxes can be considered as a public ... they are known to be able to decrease alcohol consumption. In ...

    Authors: Matthijs van den Berg, Pieter HM van Baal, Luqman Tariq, Albertine J Schuit, G Ardine de Wit and Rudolf T Hoogenveen
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2008 6:36
  9. Alcohol consumption is a major global risk factor ... the diverse findings on the complex relationship between alcohol consumption and the leading cause of death...

    Authors: Michael Roerecke and Jürgen Rehm
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:182
  10. Alcoholic beverages are widely consumed. Depression, the most prevalent mental disorder worldwide, has been related to alcohol intake. We aimed to prospectively assess the association between alcohol intake and i...

    Authors: Alfredo Gea, Juan J Beunza, Ramón Estruch, Almudena Sánchez-Villegas, Jordi Salas-Salvadó, Pilar Buil-Cosiales, Enrique Gómez-Gracia, María-Isabel Covas, Dolores Corella, Miquel Fiol, Fernando Arós, José Lapetra, Rosa-María Lamuela-Raventós, Julia Wärnberg, Xavier Pintó, Lluis Serra-Majem…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2013 11:192
  11. Despite intense investigation, the temporal sequence between alcohol consumption and mental health remains unclear. This study explored the relationship between alcohol consumption and mental health over multiple...

    Authors: Steven Bell and Annie Britton
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:91
  12. Three birth cohorts, including 65,510 mother/offspring pairs (N...= 562 CHD cases) were included. We used Mendelian randomisation (MR) analyses to explore the effects of genetically predicted maternal body mass i...

    Authors: Kurt Taylor, Robyn E. Wootton, Qian Yang, Sam Oddie, John Wright, Tiffany C. Yang, Maria Magnus, Ole A. Andreassen, Maria Carolina Borges, Massimo Caputo and Deborah A. Lawlor
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:35
  13. Light-to-moderate alcohol consumption has been reported to be cardio- ... with disease. To examine the association between alcohol consumption and prognosis in individuals with pre-...

    Authors: Chengyi Ding, Dara O’Neill, Steven Bell, Emmanuel Stamatakis and Annie Britton
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2021 19:167
  14. Individuals with low socioeconomic status (SES) experience a higher risk of mortality, in general, and alcohol-attributable mortality in particular. However, a ... between the level of socioeconomic deprivation a...

    Authors: Charlotte Probst, Shannon Lange, Carolin Kilian, Celine Saul and Jürgen Rehm
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2021 19:268
  15. The ubiquity of Internet connectivity, and widespread unmet needs, requires investigations of digital interventions for people seeking help with their drinking. The objective of this study was to test the effecti...

    Authors: Marcus Bendtsen, Katarina Åsberg and Jim McCambridge
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:176
  16. Employment disruptions can impact smoking and alcohol consumption. During the COVID-19 pandemic, ... furlough was associated with smoking, vaping and alcohol consumption in the UK.

    Authors: Michael J. Green, Jane Maddock, Giorgio Di Gessa, Bożena Wielgoszewska, Sam Parsons, Gareth J. Griffith, Jazz Croft, Anna J. Stevenson, Charlotte F. Huggins, Charlotte Booth, Jacques Wels, Richard J. Silverwood, Praveetha Patalay, Alun D. Hughes, Nishi Chaturvedi, Laura D. Howe…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:345
  17. Study of the relationships of alcohol drinking and risk of stroke can readily ... intracerebral hemorrhage, and ischemic stroke, finding disparate alcohol–stroke relationships. Our Commentary pursues the disparit...

    Authors: Arthur L. Klatsky and H. Nicole Tran
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2016 14:193
  18. Globally, illness and life expectancy follow a social gradient that puts people of lower socioeconomic status (SES) at higher risk of dying prematurely. Alcohol consumption has been shown to be a ... this study w...

    Authors: Charlotte Probst, Charles D. H. Parry, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen and Jürgen Rehm
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:97
  19. The consumption of alcohol increases the risk of drinkers harming others. The extent of alcohol’s morbidity and mortality harms to others ... in 2014 was estimated for (1) fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) or fetal alcohol

    Authors: Ludwig Kraus, Nicki-Nils Seitz, Kevin D. Shield, Gerrit Gmel and Jürgen Rehm
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2019 17:59
  20. Although long-term alcohol and tobacco use have widely been recognised ... risk factors for cancer, the impacts of alcohol and tobacco health policies on cancer mortality ... study aims to estimate the associatio...

    Authors: Heng Jiang, Michael Livingston, Robin Room, Yong Gan, Dallas English and Richard Chenhall
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2019 17:213
  21. Accurate measures of alcohol consumption are critical in assessing health harms caused by alcohol. In many countries, there are large ... based measures of consumption and those based on alcohol sales. In England...

    Authors: Mark A Bellis, Karen Hughes, Lisa Jones, Michela Morleo, James Nicholls, Ellie McCoy, Jane Webster and Harry Sumnall
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2015 13:113
  22. Alcohol consumption patterns change across life and this ... data. Analysis of longitudinal data, with repeat alcohol measures, is necessary to reveal changes within ... of the life course. Therefore, we examined...

    Authors: Annie Britton, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Michaela Benzeval, Diana Kuh and Steven Bell
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2015 13:47
  23. Hazardous and harmful alcohol use and high blood pressure are central ... and interventions for hypertension and hazardous and harmful alcohol use in primary healthcare can contribute substantially...

    Authors: Jürgen Rehm, Peter Anderson, Jose Angel Arbesu Prieto, Iain Armstrong, Henri-Jean Aubin, Michael Bachmann, Nuria Bastida Bastus, Carlos Brotons, Robyn Burton, Manuel Cardoso, Joan Colom, Daniel Duprez, Gerrit Gmel, Antoni Gual, Ludwig Kraus, Reinhold Kreutz…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2017 15:173
  24. Epidemiological evidence indicates a protective effect of light-moderate drinking on cardiovascular disease and an increased risk for heavier drinking. Nevertheless, the effect of alcohol on atherosclerotic chang...

    Authors: Annie Britton, Rebecca Hardy, Diana Kuh, John Deanfield, Marietta Charakida and Steven Bell
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2016 14:111
  25. Studies have shown that alcohol intake trajectories differ in their associations with ... , we evaluated the association between long-term alcohol consumption trajectories and CHD.

    Authors: Dara O’Neill, Annie Britton, Mary K. Hannah, Marcel Goldberg, Diana Kuh, Kay Tee Khaw and Steven Bell
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2018 16:124
  26. This prospective cohort study included 46,120 surviving patients who were firstly diagnosed with cancer in Guangzhou. Five low-risk lifestyle factors including never smoking, never alcohol use, regular physical a...

    Authors: Ce Sun, Ke Li, Huan Xu, Xiangjun Wang, Pengzhe Qin, Suixiang Wang, Boheng Liang and Lin Xu
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2021 19:158
  27. Liver cirrhosis is a major yet largely preventable and underappreciated cause of global health loss. Variations in cirrhosis mortality at the country level reflect differences in prevalence of risk factors such a...

    Authors: Ali A Mokdad, Alan D Lopez, Saied Shahraz, Rafael Lozano, Ali H Mokdad, Jeff Stanaway, Christopher JL Murray and Mohsen Naghavi
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:145
  28. Guidance to improve fertility includes reducing alcohol and caffeine consumption, achieving healthy weight-range...

    Authors: Robyn E. Wootton, Rebecca B. Lawn, Maria C. Magnus, Jorien L. Treur, Elizabeth C. Corfield, Pål R. Njølstad, Ole A. Andreassen, Deborah A. Lawlor, Marcus R. Munafò, Siri E. Håberg, George Davey Smith, Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud, Per Magnus and Alexandra Havdahl
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2023 21:125
  29. Twenty-nine meta-analyses were obtained after screening. After excluding 7 overlapping meta-analyses, 22 meta-analyses including 502 individual studies and 64 summary hazard ratios for RCC incidence were inclu...

    Authors: Zhanchen Liao, Zhitao Fang, Siqi Gou, Yong Luo, Yiqi Liu, Zhun He, Xin Li, Yansong Peng, Zheng Fu, Dongjin Li, Haiyun Chen and Zhigang Luo
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:39
  30. Excess body weight, physical activity, smoking, alcohol consumption and certain dietary factors are individually ... weight, physical activity, non-smoking, limited alcohol consumption and a healthy diet, and to....

    Authors: Krasimira Aleksandrova, Tobias Pischon, Mazda Jenab, H Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Veronika Fedirko, Teresa Norat, Dora Romaguera, Sven Knüppel, Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, Laure Dossus, Laureen Dartois, Rudolf Kaaks, Kuanrong Li, Anne Tjønneland, Kim Overvad, José Ramón Quirós…
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:168
  31. Hepatic failure has been associated with reported therapeutic use of acetaminophen by alcoholic patients. The highest risk period for alcoholic patients is immediately after discontinuation of alcohol intake. Thi...

    Authors: EK Kuffner, JL Green, GM Bogdan, PC Knox, RB Palmer, K Heard, JT Slattery and RC Dart
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2007 5:13
  32. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are negatively associated with a range of child health outcomes. In this study, we explored associations between five individual ACEs and child mental health diagnoses or symp...

    Authors: Emily Lowthian, Rebecca Anthony, Annette Evans, Rhian Daniel, Sara Long, Amrita Bandyopadhyay, Ann John, Mark A. Bellis and Shantini Paranjothy
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2021 19:172
  33. The impact of mental disorders among homeless people is likely to be substantial in low income countries because of underdeveloped social welfare and health systems. As a first step towards advocacy and provision...

    Authors: Abebaw Fekadu, Charlotte Hanlon, Emebet Gebre-Eyesus, Melkamu Agedew, Haddis Solomon, Solomon Teferra, Tsehaysina Gebre-Eyesus, Yonas Baheretibeb, Girmay Medhin, Teshome Shibre, Abraham Workneh, Teketel Tegegn, Alehegn Ketema, Philip Timms, Graham Thornicroft and Martin Prince
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:138
  34. UK Biobank recruited > 500,000 participants, aged 37–73, between 2006 and 2010. Health indicators examined were 81 cancer and 443 non-cancer illnesses used to classify participants' health status; long-standing i...

    Authors: Julian Mutz, Charlotte J. Roscoe and Cathryn M. Lewis
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2021 19:240
  35. There is now evolving data exploring the relationship between depression and various individual lifestyle factors such as diet, physical activity, sleep, alcohol intake, and tobacco smoking. While this...

    Authors: Jerome Sarris, Russell Thomson, Fiona Hargraves, Melissa Eaton, Michael de Manincor, Nicola Veronese, Marco Solmi, Brendon Stubbs, Alison R. Yung and Joseph Firth
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2020 18:354
  36. Smokeless tobacco (ST) is consumed by more than 300 million people worldwide. The distribution, determinants and health risks of ST differ from that of smoking; hence, there is a need to highlight its distinct...

    Authors: Kamran Siddiqi, Scheherazade Husain, Aishwarya Vidyasagaran, Anne Readshaw, Masuma Pervin Mishu and Aziz Sheikh
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2020 18:222
  37. The Mediterranean diet has been linked to a number of health benefits, including reduced mortality risk and lower incidence of cardiovascular disease. Definitions of the Mediterranean diet vary across some set...

    Authors: Antonia Trichopoulou, Miguel A Martínez-González, Tammy YN Tong, Nita G Forouhi, Shweta Khandelwal, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Dariush Mozaffarian and Michel de Lorgeril
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:112
  38. Within the UK Biobank, 416,481 gout-free participants (aged 37–74) were identified at baseline. Polygenic risk for gout was assessed and categorized as low (lowest tertile), middle (tertile 2), and high (highest ...

    Authors: Yuan Zhang, Rongrong Yang, Abigail Dove, Xuerui Li, Hongxi Yang, Shu Li, Ju Wang, Wei-Dong Li, Hongyu Zhao, Weili Xu and Yaogang Wang
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2022 20:138
  39. The forthcoming post-Millennium Development Goals era will bring about new challenges in global health. Low- and middle-income countries will have to contend with a dual burden of infectious and non-communicab...

    Authors: Alan D Lopez, Thomas N Williams, Adeera Levin, Marcello Tonelli, Jasvinder A Singh, Peter GJ Burney, Jürgen Rehm, Nora D Volkow, George Koob and Cleusa P Ferri
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:200
  40. Stigma is associated with health conditions that drive disease burden in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including HIV, tuberculosis, mental health problems, epilepsy, and substance use disorders. Ho...

    Authors: Jeremy C. Kane, Melissa A. Elafros, Sarah M. Murray, Ellen M. H. Mitchell, Jura L. Augustinavicius, Sara Causevic and Stefan D. Baral
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2019 17:17
  41. Data were collected between January 2009 and March 2013 from 90 refugee camps across 15 LMIC. Visits to primary care settings were recorded for seven MNS categories: epilepsy/seizure; alcohol/substance use; menta...

    Authors: Jeremy C Kane, Peter Ventevogel, Paul Spiegel, Judith K Bass, Mark van Ommeren and Wietse A Tol
    Citation: BMC Medicine 2014 12:228