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
Heart
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General health

Effects of moderate alcohol consumption and hypobaric hypoxia: implications for passengers’ sleep, oxygen saturation and heart rate on long-haul flights

Cardiovascular disease
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The kidneys

Association between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, and chronic kidney disease

Cognitive decline
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Cognitive decline
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The brain
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Old age

Healthy lifestyle and cognitive decline in middle-aged and older adults residing in 14 European countries

Cancer

Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, 2019

General health

Correlation between cigarette smoking and alcohol consumption and Rosacea

The liver

Global epidemiology of alcohol-associated liver disease in adolescents and young adults

All-cause mortality
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Moderate drinking

The combined association of physical activity and alcohol use with long-term mortality

Harmful consumption
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Cancer

Alcohol rehabilitation and cancer risk: a nationwide hospital cohort study in France

Cognitive decline
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Old age

Exploring the impacts of risk factors on mortality patterns of global Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias from 1990 to 2021

Stroke

Alcohol drinking modified the effect of plasma YKL-40 levels on stroke-specific mortality of acute ischemic stroke

Stroke

Association between heavy alcohol consumption and cryptogenic ischaemic stroke in young adults

Old age

Association of alcohol use with olfactory function among older adults

Cognitive decline
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The brain

Associations of modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors with cognitive functions

Cognitive decline
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Old age

Relationship between alcohol consumption and dementia with Mendelian randomization approaches among older adults in the US

Cancer
,
The kidneys

The causal relationship between smoking, alcohol consumption, and renal clear cell carcinoma

The liver

Trends in alcohol use and alcoholic liver disease in South Korea: a nationwide cohort study

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