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Balancing harms and benefits of alcohol.
[Updated December 2014]
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Meta-analyses: Alcohol is linked to improved cardiovascular health
• Alcohol improves HDL-cholesterol by circa 0.1 mmol/L
• Alcohol also improves fibrinogen levels 0.2 mg/L
• Alcohol increases apolipoprotein A1 by 0.1 g/L
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• Alcohol decreases cardiovascular deaths by 25 %
• Alcohol decreases all cause deaths• Best effect is reached at a daily intake
of 1-2 alcohol drinks
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Brien et al. Meta-analysis of 44 intervention trials.
BMJ 2011; 342:d636
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Ronksley et al. Meta-analysis of 84 cohort trials. BMJ 2011; 342:d671
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Benefit HarmDanaei, G., Ding, E. L., Mozaffarian, D., Taylor, B., Rehm, J., Murray, C. J., & Ezzati, M. (2009). The preventable causes of death in the united states: Comparative risk assessment of dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors. Plos Medicine, 6(4), e1000058. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000058 (Open access article)
Balance between cardiovascular and cancer plus other mortality
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The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington: Global Burden of Disease. Visualizations: http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/country-profiles
CVD
Cancer
Balance between cardiovascular, cancer and other morbidity
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Summary
• Alcohol is linked to improved survival from cardiovascular causes (Ronksley et al. 2011, meta-analysis on 84 cohort studies, BMJ)
• Alcohol concumption is linked to improvement of HDL-cholesterol by circa 0,1 mmol/l (Brien et al. 2011, meta-analysis on 44 intervention studies, BMJ)
• However, cardiovascular benefits should be reflected against potential harms such cancer, injuries, liver, pancreatic, mental diseases and social burden
• With current consumption figures in USA and in Finland, the harms seem to outweigh benefits in terms of deaths
(Danaei et al. 2009, IHME register 2013)
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Balancing harms and benefits of alcohol.
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Reijo Laatikainen, Authorized Nutritionist, MBA http://twitter.com/pronutritionist
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