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AIM Digest:
August 2020
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
Cancer
Smoking, alcohol consumption, and cancer: A mendelian randomisation study in UK Biobank and international genetic consortia participants
Critique
Breast cancer
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Breast cancer
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Cancer
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Women
A Mendelian randomization study of alcohol consumption and the risk of breast cancer and ovarian cancer reveals no significant associations
Critique
General health
Are there health risks from amounts of alcohol referred to as being within “low-risk drinking” guidelines?
Cancer
Alcohol drinking and bladder cancer risk from a pooled analysis of ten cohort studies in Japan
General health
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Old age
Healthy behaviours at age 50 years and frailty at older ages in a 20-year follow-up of the UK Whitehall II cohort
Cancer
Light alcohol drinking and the risk of cancer development: a controversial relationship
Old age
Alcohol consumption and health in ageing
Metabolic syndrome/weight
Long-term low-dose ethanol intake improves healthspan and resists high-fat diet-induced obesity in mice
Heart
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Hypertension
The effect of alcohol on blood pressure
Women
Changes in excessive alcohol use among older women across the menopausal transition
Cardiovascular disease
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Cholesterol
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Heart
The effect of smoking on the association between long-term alcohol consumption and dyslipidemia in a middle-aged and older population
The kidneys
Alcohol drinking reduces the risk of chronic kidney damage: A meta‐analysis of 15 prospective cohort studies
All-cause mortality
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Mediterranean diet
Mediterranean diet, alcohol-drinking pattern and their combined effect on all-cause mortality
Cancer
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Prostate cancer
Alcohol consumption and the risk of prostate cancer
The brain
Association of low to moderate alcohol drinking with cognitive functions from middle to older age among US adults
Cognitive decline
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Old age
Four in 10 dementia cases could be prevented or delayed
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