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.

May’s Digest

Featured articles

Critique
All-cause mortality

Association between daily alcohol intake and risk of all-cause mortality. A systematic review and meta-analyses

The kidneys

Association between alcohol consumption and kidney stones in US adults

Moderate drinking

An evaluation of the longitudinal association between alcohol consumption and a measure of inflammation

Metabolic syndrome/weight

Managing stress with food and alcohol consumption connected with faster lifelong weight gain

Cancer
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The kidneys

Alcohol consumption and socioeconomic status associated with the risk of kidney cancer

General health

Alcohol consumption and risk of total hip replacement due to hip osteoarthritis in women

Cardiovascular disease
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Antioxidants

Narrative review of the effects of red wine consumption

General health

Association of alcohol consumption and fatigue in systemic lupus erythematosus

The kidneys

Differences in the food consumption between kidney stone formers and non-formers in the Swiss Kidney Stone Cohort

Diabetes

Association of alcohol consumption with all-cause mortality, new-onset stroke, and coronary heart disease in patients with abnormal glucose metabolism

General health

Increases in ‘deaths of despair’ during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and the United Kingdom

Cognitive decline
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Cognitive decline
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The brain
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Old age

Alcohol use, dementia risk, and sex

Rheumatoid arthritis

Metabolic signature of healthy lifestyle and risk of rheumatoid arthritis

General health
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Stroke

Light alcohol consumption promotes early neurogenesis following ischemic stroke in adult mice

Diabetes

How associations between profiles of beverage consumption and type 2 diabetes risk are mediated by biomarker networks

The kidneys

A dose-dependent association between alcohol consumption and incidence of proteinuria and low glomerular filtration rate

Diabetes

Association between alcohol consumption and incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Japanese men

The brain

Deep brain stimulation for alcohol use disorder recovery

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