{"id":1729,"date":"2018-02-27T09:35:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T22:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/alcohol-related-disease-claims-6000-lives\/"},"modified":"2018-02-27T09:35:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T22:35:30","slug":"alcohol-related-disease-claims-6000-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/alcohol-related-disease-claims-6000-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol-related disease claims 6000 lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>SBS 27\/2\/18<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nearly 6000 Australians are dying from alcohol-related diseases each year. (AAP)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nearly 6000 Australians died as a result of a disease linked to alcohol in 2015, the National Drug Research Institute has found.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alcohol-related diseases are being blamed for causing the deaths of nearly 6000 Australians each year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A study by the National Drug Research Institute at Western Australia&#8217;s Curtin University has found an estimated 5,785 people aged over 15 died from alcohol-attributable causes in 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just over a third died from alcohol-attributed cancer, with injuries, cardiovascular disease and digestive diseases linked to 17 per cent of deaths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This research shows that in Australia, one person dies every 90 minutes on average, and someone ends up in our hospitals every three-and-a-half minutes, because of preventable conditions caused by alcohol,&#8221; NDRI alcohol policy team leader Professor Tanya Chikritzh said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Breast cancer and liver disease were the main causes of death for women, while most men died from liver disease and bowel cancer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As well as the 2000 people who died from alcohol-attributable cancer, another 13,000 were hospitalised with cancers linked to low or moderate drinking levels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Terry Slevin, education and research director at Cancer Council WA, said many people would be shocked to learn that more than one third of alcohol-related deaths were linked to cancer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We rarely see people with a cancer diagnosis link their drinking to the disease,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have a long way to go to embed the notion that drinking alcohol genuinely increases risk of cancer and death.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/alcohol-related-disease-claims-6000-lives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"button\">For More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SBS 27\/2\/18 Nearly 6000 Australians are dying from alcohol-related diseases each year. (AAP) Nearly 6000 Australians died as a result of a disease linked to alcohol in 2015, the National Drug Research Institute has found. Alcohol-related diseases are being blamed for causing the deaths of nearly 6000 Australians each year. 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