AIM Digest:

June 2026

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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.

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Critique
Mediterranean diet
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Moderate drinking

Moderate wine consumption, defined by the mediterranean diet, is associated with delayed biological aging in men from the Moli-sani study

Moderate drinking
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Women

Analysis of biomarkers of low to moderate alcohol intake in the Postmenopausal Women’s Alcohol Study

Breast cancer
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Cancer
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Colorectal cancers
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Head and neck cancers

Alcohol consumption and cancer progression: Mechanistic insights, immune dysregulation, and public health implications

The liver

Low to moderate alcohol intake is not associated with increased liver stiffness or cardiometabolic risk in MASLD

Healthy lifestyle
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Old age

Lifestyle behaviours and health span in older adults

Cardiovascular disease

Reassessing alcohol consumption and cardiovascular disease by addressing bias in observational data

General health
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J-shaped curve

Health effects associated with alcohol consumption: a Burden of Proof study

Head and neck cancers
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The liver

Sex-specific disparities in alcohol-associated liver disease and cancers

Cancer
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Head and neck cancers

Alcohol consumption and age-specific risk of oesophageal cancer

Parkinsons' disease

Early alcohol initiation and Parkinson’s disease risk

J-shaped curve

A review of the relationship between dimensions of alcohol consumption and the burden of disease: 2026 update

Gut health

Chronic alcohol consumption disrupts the gut microbial and metabolic landscapes

Atrial fibrillation

Alcohol consumption and risk of atrial fibrillation

Cardiovascular disease
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Cholesterol

Changes in alcohol consumption and their association with lipid profiles among Korean adults

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