Imperial College London
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PROFESSOR AZEEM MAJEED

Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health

Chair - Primary Care and Public Health & Head of Department
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 3368a.majeed Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Ms Dorothea Cockerell +44 (0)20 7594 3368

 
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Location

 

Reynolds BuildingCharing Cross Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Griswold:2018:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31310-2,
author = {Griswold, MG and Fullman, N and Hawley, C and Rawaf, DL and Rawaf, S and Murray, C and GBD, 2016 Alcohol Collaborators},
doi = {10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31310-2},
journal = {The Lancet},
pages = {1015--1035},
title = {Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31310-2},
volume = {392},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - BackgroundAlcohol use is a leading risk factor for death and disability, but its overall association with health remains complex given the possible protective effects of moderate alcohol consumption on some conditions. With our comprehensive approach to health accounting within the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016, we generated improved estimates of alcohol use and alcohol-attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 195 locations from 1990 to 2016, for both sexes and for 5-year age groups between the ages of 15 years and 95 years and older.MethodsUsing 694 data sources of individual and population-level alcohol consumption, along with 592 prospective and retrospective studies on the risk of alcohol use, we produced estimates of the prevalence of current drinking, abstention, the distribution of alcohol consumption among current drinkers in standard drinks daily (defined as 10 g of pure ethyl alcohol), and alcohol-attributable deaths and DALYs. We made several methodological improvements compared with previous estimates: first, we adjusted alcohol sales estimates to take into account tourist and unrecorded consumption; second, we did a new meta-analysis of relative risks for 23 health outcomes associated with alcohol use; and third, we developed a new method to quantify the level of alcohol consumption that minimises the overall risk to individual health.FindingsGlobally, alcohol use was the seventh leading risk factor for both deaths and DALYs in 2016, accounting for 2·2% (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 1·5–3·0) of age-standardised female deaths and 6·8% (5·8–8·0) of age-standardised male deaths. Among the population aged 15–49 years, alcohol use was the leading risk factor globally in 2016, with 3·8% (95% UI 3·2–4·3) of female deaths and 12·2% (10·8–13·6) of male deaths attributable to alcohol use. F
AU  - Griswold,MG
AU  - Fullman,N
AU  - Hawley,C
AU  - Rawaf,DL
AU  - Rawaf,S
AU  - Murray,C
AU  - GBD,2016 Alcohol Collaborators
DO  - 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31310-2
EP  - 1035
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 0140-6736
SP  - 1015
TI  - Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
T2  - The Lancet
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)31310-2
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/62805
VL  - 392
ER  -
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