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

Diabetes

Lifestyle behaviour in the Seguimiento Universidad De Navarra (SUN) Cohort linked to lower risk of diabetes

All-cause mortality

Lifestyle behaviour in the Seguimiento Universidad De Navarra (SUN) Cohort linked to total mortality

Cancer
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Head and neck cancers
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Antioxidants

Wine consumption and oral cavity cancer: Friend or foe, two faces of Janus

Critique
General health

Does the source of funding of epidemiologic studies on alcohol and health affect their results?

General health

Study identifies possible reason why moderate alcohol consumption may lower lupus risk

Cognitive decline
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Old age

Midlife alcohol consumption and longitudinal brain atrophy: The PREVENT dementia study

Cognitive decline
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Moderate drinking
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Old age

Healthy lifestyle and the risk of Alzheimer dementia

General health

Are hazardous drinkers more impulsive than light drinkers? A comprehensive assessment in young adults 

Cardiovascular disease
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Heart
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Cholesterol

A meta-analysis of the effects of beer consumption on cardiovascular health

Diabetes

Association of alcohol intake with incidence and progression of diabetic retinopathy

The liver

Effects of low ethanol consumption on nonalcoholic steatohepatitis in mice

Cardiovascular disease
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Heart

Alcohol consumption and risk of hospitalisations and mortality in the atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) study

General health

Genome-wide meta-analysis of problematic alcohol use yields insights into biology and relationships with other traits

General health

Harmful drinking is associated with mental health conditions and risk behaviours in Australian young people

General health

Influence of daily beer or ethanol consumption on physical fitness in response to a high-intensity interval training programme

General health

Binge drinking and depressive symptoms among adolescents in the US

Pregnancy
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Women

Drinking or smoking while breastfeeding and later developmental health outcomes in children

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