{"id":2938,"date":"2021-08-04T16:23:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T06:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/alcohol-use-and-risk-of-mortality-disease-current-drinking-guidelines-set-to-high\/"},"modified":"2021-08-04T16:23:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T06:23:13","slug":"alcohol-use-and-risk-of-mortality-disease-current-drinking-guidelines-set-to-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/alcohol-use-and-risk-of-mortality-disease-current-drinking-guidelines-set-to-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol Use and Risk of Mortality &#038; Disease \u2013 Current \u2018Drinking Guidelines\u2019 Set to High?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background-color: inherit; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; caret-color: auto;\">\u2026The existing research clearly indicates several implications for alcohol policies, including guidelines: First, as most dose\u2013response curves are monotonous, the <\/span><strong style=\"background-color: inherit; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; caret-color: auto;\"><em>lower the level of alcohol consumption overall, the better<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"background-color: inherit; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; caret-color: auto;\">\u2026<\/span><strong style=\"background-color: inherit; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; caret-color: auto;\"><em>it seems clear that less consumption is better<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"background-color: inherit; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; caret-color: auto;\"> (i.e., between 10 and 20 g\/day [<\/span><strong>34<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: inherit; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; caret-color: auto;\">,<\/span><strong>75<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: inherit; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem; caret-color: auto;\">]), and the risk is sex-specific.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This means that most current low-risk drinking guidelines have thresholds which are too high<\/em><\/strong> [<strong>75<\/strong>]. Second, as many of the dose\u2013response curves are exponential, <strong><em>risk reduction is greater for heavier drinkers<\/em><\/strong> compared to moderate drinkers, if both reduce their drinking by the same number of drinks per day [<strong>18<\/strong>]. Empirical evidence suggests that this is best achieved by moving the overall population mean downwards [<strong>56<\/strong>,<strong>76<\/strong>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Dose-Response_Relationships_between_Levels_of_Alcohol_Use_RiskDeathDisease2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button\">View PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026The existing research clearly indicates several implications for alcohol policies, including guidelines: First, as most dose\u2013response curves are monotonous, the lower the level of alcohol consumption overall, the better\u2026it seems clear that less consumption is better (i.e., between 10 and 20 g\/day [34,75]), and the risk is sex-specific. This means that most current low-risk drinking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dalgorno-monitoring-alcohol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}