AIM Digest:

February 2025

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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

Draft Report: Scientific Findings of the Alcohol Intake & Health Study for Public Comment

Critique
Moderate drinking

Review of Evidence on Alcohol and Health

General health

Association between wine consumption and migraine

All-cause mortality

Alcohol consumption and mortality among Canadian drinkers

Heart
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Heart failure

Alcohol consumption and incident heart failure in men and women

General health

Dose-dependent effects of alcohol consumption on pressure pain threshold

Harmful consumption

Genetic variation and self-rated effects of alcohol in a French young adult sample

Cancer

Effect of alcohol consumption on oncological treatment effectiveness and toxicity in patients with cancer

Diabetes
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Cardiovascular disease

Healthy lifestyle factors and combined macrovascular and microvascular events in diabetes patients with high cardiovascular risk

Diabetes
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The kidneys

Association between drinking patterns and diabetic kidney disease in United States adults

Heart
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Heart attack

Patterns among factors associated with myocardial infarction

Depression

Evaluating the influence of nonproblematic alcohol intake on the outcome of major depression

Diabetes

Association between alcohol consumption and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus across different body mass index categories among Japanese workers

Cancer
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Diabetes

Dose-response association between alcohol consumption and kidney cancer risk differs according to glycemic status

Cancer

Consumption of red versus white wine and cancer risk

General health

Alcohol consumption and autoimmune diseases

General health

Effect of moderate wine consumption on the activity of enzymes involved in platelet activating factor metabolism and thrombotic biomarkers

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