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 brain
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General health

Healthy lifestyle can help prevent depression

General health

Social anxiety disorder is a risk factor for alcohol use problems in the National Comorbidity Surveys

General health

Associations of smoking and alcohol consumption with the development of open angle glaucoma

Cancer
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Colorectal cancers

Variety of fruit and vegetables and alcohol intake are associated with gut microbial species and gene abundance in colorectal cancer survivors

The brain

Early onset adolescent binge drinking is associated with reduced white matter integrity in post-9/11 adult veterans

All-cause mortality
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Old age

Mortality risk in older people who drank alcohol in the past by varying duration of alcohol abstention

Cardiovascular disease
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Heart
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J-shaped curve
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Metabolic syndrome/weight

Association between alcohol consumption and ectopic fat in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

Parkinsons' disease

Changes in smoking, alcohol consumption, and the risk of Parkinson’s disease

Heart
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Hypertension

Alcohol consumption and antihypertensive treatment effect in male patients with hypertension

Cancer

Global trends in incidence, death, burden and risk factors of early-onset cancer from 1990 to 2019

Cardiovascular disease
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Heart
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Cholesterol

Relationship between lifestyle habits and cardiovascular risk factors in familial hypercholesterolemia

Cardiovascular disease
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Heart
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Cholesterol

High-density lipoprotein functionality, cardiovascular health, and patterns of alcohol consumption

General health

Sleep and circadian influences on blood alcohol concentration

General health

Previous psychiatric hospitalizations and future alcohol-related hospitalizations in patients with alcohol use disorders

Diabetes
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Cardiovascular disease
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Heart
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Metabolic syndrome/weight

Moderate alcohol consumption, types of beverages and drinking pattern with cardiometabolic biomarkers in three cohorts of US men and women

Critique
Breast cancer
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Cancer

Alcohol consumption and prognosis and survival in breast cancer survivors: the Pathways Study

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The International Scientific Forum on Alcohol Research (ISFAR) is a group of 45 specialist Professors and Medics who produce balanced and well researched analysis of emerging research papers alcohol and health.
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