Research report that 'drinking is comprehensively not good for your health'

by Maria Eklind

Many studies that sake is good for health are reported as the proverb says "sake is the head of a hundred medicines." On the other hand, there are many studies that alcohol intake has a serious health risk. A research team at the University of Washington has compiled a huge amount of research data on drinking done so far, and as a result reports that alcohol intake exceeds demerits over merit.

Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 - The Lancet
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)31310-2/fulltext

Alcohol is associated with 2.8 million deaths each year worldwide - Scimex
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/alcohol-is-associated-with-2.8-million-deaths-each-year-worldwide

Max Griswald of the University of Washington Health Indicators and Evaluation Laboratories has investigated millions of research papers and about 28 million people.

About 25% of women and 39% of men are drinking drinking worldwide. This means that about one in three people worldwide routinely consume alcohol. In addition, it turned out that men had more average alcohol intake, they were drinking about 2.5 times more than women.

by Becky Wetherington

In addition, it was found that 2.8 million people die each year from the cause of alcohol-related death. Alcohol-induced mortality was 2.2% for females and 6.8% for males. Especially when examining for the age group over 50 years old, the death rate further increases, 27.1% for women and 18.9% for males. There are many people who die of tuberculosis, traffic accidents and suicides in addition to liver cirrhosis and stroke in addition to liver cirrhosis, many people who died of tuberculosis in low-income countries, stroke was the main cause of alcohol death in high-income countries.

Previous studies have also pointed out that alcohol has a positive effect on health, but since the disadvantage obtained by drinking, such as the risk of cancer onset, exceeds the merit, it is considered that there is absolutely no alcohol safety The team is reporting. According to Mr. Griswald, "From previous research it turned out that alcohol has a preventive effect on blood loss mental disease in certain circumstances, but as alcohol increases it also increases the risk to health I found out that I will do it. "

by Imagens Evangélicas

According to the research team, the influence of drinking alcohol data under 15 years of age, consumption of alcohol that is being kept up, dementia and alcohol to psoriasis (kankan) has not been properly estimated, and the number of alcohol drinkers He may be underestimating health risks. Also, there is no reliable data on the part of "becoming violent by drinking alcohol", and the data showing the relationship between alcohol and traffic accident is only for the United States and it can not be said that it applies to the whole world , The research team comments that it is a subject of future research

Dr. Robin Barton of the University of Cambridge medical doctor evaluated that Mr. Griswald's research is the most comprehensive of the research on alcohol so far, "This finding should be used for public health policy Alcohol intake has caused global health problems to bring shareholder a commercial benefit.The taxation on alcohol should be increased and the opportunity for children to consume alcohol should be reduced.