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The US surgeon general issued a report warning alcohol is associated with cancer. He cited four recent studies to argue that alcohol should have warning labels like cigarettes. Some scientists ...
Further, the report states that alcohol consumption leads to 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 cancer-related deaths in the U.S. each year, making it the third leading preventable cause of cancer ...
The report cited a growing number of studies examining the harms of drinking alcohol. The US surgeon general wants to see cancer warnings on wine, beer, and spirits.
This study rated alcohol the most harmful drug overall, and the only drug more harmful to others than to the users themselves. [4] Alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) is a set of symptoms that can occur following a reduction in or cessation of alcohol use after a period of excessive use. [1]
A Norwegian study found that, "No statistically significant associations between various degrees of exposure to alcohol and risk of gastric cancer was revealed, but combined high use of cigarettes (>20/day) and alcohol (>5 occasions/14 days) increased the risk of noncardia gastric cancer nearly 5-fold (HR = 4.90 [95% CI = 1.90–12.62 ...
Delirium tremens is a component of alcohol withdrawal hypothesized to be the result of compensatory changes in response to chronic heavy alcohol use. Alcohol positively allosterically modulates the binding of GABA, enhancing its effect and resulting in inhibition of neurons projecting into the nucleus accumbens, as well as inhibiting NMDA ...
The report found with moderate certainty that having a moderate amount of alcohol is linked with a higher risk of breast cancer in women compared with people who never had alcohol.
The level of ethanol consumption that minimizes the risk of disease, injury, and death is subject to some controversy. [16] Several studies have found a J-shaped relationship between alcohol consumption and health, [17] [18] [2] [19] meaning that risk is minimized at a certain (non-zero) consumption level, and drinking below or above this level increases risk, with the risk level of drinking a ...