Posted on 04/28/2015 6:12:17 AM PDT by VA Voter
According to the World Health Organization, excessive alcohol drinking is the most common cause of cirrhosis worldwide. A new worldwide study presented at The International Liver CongressTM 2015 has shown the significant influence of daily drinking on this disease burden. New data shows that the cirrhosis burden caused by alcohol increased by 11.13% when moving from the moderate to heavy daily drinking (up to one drink/day for women; two drinks/day for men) classification (p<.001).
Most studies assessing the prevalence of alcohol abuse as a risk factor for alcoholic cirrhosis focus on total annual amount drunk per person. However, the researchers highlight that clinical studies suggest that it is a high daily consumption which is the strongest predictor of alcoholic cirrhosis. This new research concluded that heavy daily drinkers most significantly and independently influence a country’s cirrhosis burden.
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According to the World Health Organization’s Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health, around 6% of global deaths are caused by drinking alcohol, the majority from alcoholic cirrhosis – scarring of the liver as a result of continuous, long-term liver damage. Half of all cases of cirrhosis are caused by alcohol.
The researchers analysed the WHO’s Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health, which included parameters of alcohol consumption and drinking patterns from 193 countries.
Reducing heavy drinking should therefore be considered as an important target for public health monitoring and policies.
Sorry to hear of your accident, hope the recovery goes well.
I’m a Lager and Pilsner guy myself...but I figure in your case, you’ve “earned” whatever you choose!
Bullshavacky.
One thing will never be known is how many people lie about their drinking and how big are those lies.
I have a very refined and eloquent palate for beer.
Must be domestic, from a can, able to pronounce the name, and cold.
I also recall a study linking alcohol and cancer.
I don't mean to be snarky here, but the actual evidence and the studies on this are not quite as certain as you have been led to believe. Quoting from the Mayo Clinic, “Even so, the evidence about the possible health benefits of alcohol isn't certain, and alcohol may not benefit everyone who drinks.”
As an example of why the Mayo Clinic says this despite multiple accounts in the media about the benefits of alcohol I will quote from another article from The Atlantic about the types of studies you are citing,
“It's not that studies showing health benefits from small amounts of alcohol are wrong; it's just that that's not how most people do drink. And the way many people drink damages their health.”
“It found that men who drank sparingly had a longer life expectancy than those who didn't drink at all. Wine worked best; men who drank an average of 0.7 ounces of wine daily lived about 2.5 years longer than those who drank beer or liquor and five years longer than nondrinkers.”
“Taking this study to heart and trying to drink 0.7 ounces of wine daily, the first step would be finding a glass small enough to allow you to do so.”
The devil always, always seems to be in the “details”. I would suggest that much of the information regarding the “health benefits” of drinking alcohol are derived from studies exploiting statistical anomalies such as the one cited in The Atlantic. If the benefits "moderate" alcohol consumption for the heart were as clear cut as is commonly reported in the media... there would likely be many doctors advising middle aged men nondrinkers to start drinking. I think that you would be hard pressed to find more than a tiny percentage who would actually do this and only under very specific circumstances.
Pant ... Load.
HA!
I grew up drinking Oly, Schlitz, Tuborg, Blatz, PBR, Miller etc...
My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.
Two or three joints every night, however, makes you brighter and sharper in this New Age.
“So what do you call someone who drinks 3-4? 5-6? 6+?”
Alcoholics.
Since he doesn't imbibe, I decided to join him. My motive is not entirely unselfish: it helps keep my weight down. Do we miss it? You bet, but it's worth it to us to not drink at all.
And undoubtedly most of it is junk science, just like global warming, and ends up misinforming the public, or worse, becoming law. There oughta be a law against making law with bad information!
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