AIM Digest:

June 2024

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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

The kidneys

Association between alcohol consumption and chronic kidney disease: a population-based survey

General health

Alcohol consumption and its correlation with medical conditions: a UK Biobank study

Cancer
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Colorectal cancers
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Cardiovascular disease
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Heart

Effects of moderate ethanol exposure on risk factors for cardiovascular disease and colorectal cancer in adult Wistar rats

All-cause mortality
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Cancer
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Cardiovascular disease
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Heart
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Moderate drinking

Alcohol – a scoping review for Nordic Nutrition

Harmful consumption
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Hypertension

Alcohol and binge drinking frequency and hypertension: a national cross-sectional study in the US

Cardiovascular disease
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Heart

Mixed messages? Exposure to reports about alcohol’s suggested cardiovascular effects and hazardous alcohol use

Healthy lifestyle
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Moderate drinking

Alcohol exposure and disease associations: A Mendelian randomisation and meta-analysis on weekly consumption and problematic drinking

Cardiovascular disease
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Heart

Alcohol: a cardiovascular friend or foe?

General health

Dose-response relationship between alcohol drinking and gout risk: do subtypes of alcoholic beverages make a difference?

Cardiovascular disease
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Heart

Red wine alleviates atherosclerosis-related inflammatory markers in healthy subjects rather than in high cardiovascular risk subjects

Critique
The kidneys

Association between drinking status and risk of kidney stones among United States adults: NHANES 2007–2018

Healthy lifestyle

Alcohol consumption and accelerated biological ageing in middle-aged and older people

Critique
Heart
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Stroke

A burden of proof study on alcohol consumption and ischemic heart disease

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