The relationship of average volume of alcohol consumption and patterns of drinking to burden of disease: an overview

ABSTRACT Aims As part of a larger study to estimate the global burden of disease attributable to alcohol: to quantify the relationships between average volume of alcohol consumption, patterns of drinking and disease and injury outcomes, and to combine exposure and risk estimates to determine regional and global alcohol‐attributable fractions (AAFs) for major disease and injury categories. Design, methods, setting Systematic literature reviews were used to select diseases related to alcohol consumption. Meta‐analyses of the relationship between alcohol consumption and disease and multi‐level analyses of aggregate data to fill alcohol–disease relationships not currently covered by individual‐level data were used…

• CF
  Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
• BF
  Bundesamt für Gesundheit