{"id":1838,"date":"2018-08-28T14:45:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T04:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/a-new-scientific-study-concludes-there-is-no-safe-level-of-drinking-alcohol\/"},"modified":"2018-08-28T14:45:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T04:45:28","slug":"a-new-scientific-study-concludes-there-is-no-safe-level-of-drinking-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/a-new-scientific-study-concludes-there-is-no-safe-level-of-drinking-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"A new scientific study concludes there is no safe level of drinking alcohol."},"content":{"rendered":"

New scientific study: No safe level of alcohol!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published on Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (http:\/\/www.healthdata.org<\/a>)  August 23, 2018.<\/p>\n

3 million deaths in 2016 attributed to alcohol; \u2018Massive health risks\u2019<\/p>\n

The study, published today in the international medical journal The Lancet<\/a> shows that in 2016, nearly 3 million deaths globally were attributed to alcohol use, including 12 percent of deaths in males between the ages of 15 and 49.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe health risks associated with alcohol are massive,\u201d said Dr. Emmanuela Gakidou of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington and the senior author of the study. \u201cOur findings are consistent with other recent research, which found clear and convincing correlations between drinking and premature death, cancer, and cardiovascular problems. Zero alcohol consumption minimizes the overall risk of health loss.\u201d<\/p>\n

It provides findings on prevalence of current drinking, prevalence of abstention, alcohol consumption among current drinkers, and deaths and overall poor health attributable to alcohol for 23 health outcomes, such as communicable and non-communicable diseases and injuries, including:<\/p>\n