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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Hypertension

Does the “quality” of the diet modify the relation of alcohol intake to the risk of hypertension?

General health

The role of alcohol metabolism in the pathology of alcohol hangover

Cardiovascular disease
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Heart
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The kidneys

Frequency of alcohol drinking modifies the association between salt intake and albuminuria

Stroke

Drinking patterns and risk of ischemic stroke in middle-aged adults: Do beneficial drinking habits indeed exist?

General health

Acute rewarding and disinhibiting effects of alcohol as indicators of drinking habits

Cognitive decline
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Cognitive decline
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The brain
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Gut health
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Old age

Relationship between wine consumption, diet and microbiome modulation in Alzheimer’s Disease

Heart
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Hypertension

No benefit from alcohol intake reduction found for controlling hypertension

Heart
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General health
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Hypertension

Association between the incidence of hypertension and alcohol consumption pattern and the alcohol flushing response

Antioxidants

Evaluation of anti-inflammatory, anti-platelet and anti-oxidant activity of wine extracts prepared from ten different grape varieties

The brain

Changes in the brain directly following alcohol consumption

Antioxidants

Wine or beer? Comparison, changes and improvement of polyphenolic compounds during technological phases

Diabetes
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Antioxidants

Supplementation with red wine extract increases insulin sensitivity and peripheral blood mononuclear Sirt1 expression in nondiabetic humans

Cardiovascular disease
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Heart

Alcohol type and ideal cardiovascular health among adults of the Multi- Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

General health

New simple method to reverse alcohol intoxication

All-cause mortality
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Mediterranean diet

Wine intake in the framework of a Mediterranean Diet and chronic noncommunicable diseases

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