AIM Digest:

December 2023

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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

Critique
Moderate drinking

New perspectives on how to formulate alcohol drinking guidelines

Pregnancy
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The brain
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Women

Brain volume in Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders over a 20-year span

Antioxidants
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General health

Why do some people get headaches from drinking red wine?

Moderate drinking
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Stroke

Moderate alcohol consumption and risk of stroke in US Veterans

The liver

Alcohol-related liver disease: is there a safe alcohol consumption limit for liver disease?

The kidneys

Binge-pattern alcohol consumption and genetic risk as determinants of alcohol-related liver disease

General health

Alcohol and skeletal muscle in health and disease

Cardiovascular disease
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Heart

Alcohol consumption may have positive and negative effects on cardiovascular disease risk

Antioxidants
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Gut health

Exploring human metabolome after wine intake – A review

Diabetes

The association between alcohol drinking and glycemic management among people with type 2 diabetes in China

The brain

Are dopamine receptors related to risk of developing an alcohol use disorder?

All-cause mortality

Alcohol intake and cause-specific mortality: conventional and genetic evidence in a prospective cohort study

Cancer

International burden of cancer deaths and years of life lost from cancer attributable to four major risk factors

General health

Association between alcohol consumption patterns and glaucoma in Japan

Cancer
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Head and neck cancers

Risk for esophageal cancer based on lifestyle factors–smoking, alcohol consumption, and body mass index

Cancer

Cancer risk according to alcohol consumption trajectories: A Population-based cohort study of 2.8 million Korean men

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