AIM Digest:

April 2024

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AIM Digest is a journal published 10 times a year and brings together the most recent global research concerning alcohol and health, moderate drinking, campaigns and social and policy issues regarding alcohol. The key articles are then archived by topic below post publication. Synopsis as well as position papers and critiques by specialist Professors and Medics since 2011 can be found by topic.

Featured articles

Harmful consumption
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The brain

Recovery of neuropsychological function following abstinence from alcohol in adults diagnosed with an alcohol use disorder: Systematic review of longitudinal studies

All-cause mortality
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Old age

Alcohol use and mortality among older couples in the United States: Evidence of individual and partner effects

Harmful consumption
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All-cause mortality

The risk relationships between alcohol consumption, alcohol use disorder and alcohol use disorder mortality

The kidneys

Association between drinking status and risk of kidney stones among United States adults: NHANES 2007-2018

General health

Association between smoking and alcohol drinking and benign adrenal tumours: a Mendelian randomization study

General health
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Moderate drinking

Behaviour-related risk factors and time to death among persons with alcohol consumption versus persons without

Cardiovascular disease
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Heart
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Antioxidants
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Gut health

Resveratrol and vascular health

Cardiovascular disease
,
Heart

Moderate wine consumption measured using the biomarker urinary tartaric acid concentration decreases inflammatory mediators related to atherosclerosis

Cardiovascular disease
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Heart
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Moderate drinking

Reduced alcohol consumption and major adverse cardiovascular events among individuals with previously high alcohol consumption

Cognitive decline
,
The brain

Visual memory and alcohol use in a middle-aged birth cohort

Diabetes
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Cardiovascular disease
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Heart
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The kidneys

Association of combined healthy lifestyle with risk of adverse outcomes in patients with prediabetes

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