Ideology, history and changing models of liver cirrhosis epidemiology

Herd, Demise

doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.1992.tb01998.x

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“…Despite some epidemiological debate, in the middle of the twentieth century (see Herd, 1992), research has generally supported a link, with a large number of early and relatively unsophisticated correlational studies finding associations between population-level consumption and cirrhosis mortality (Edwards et al, 1994). More robust longitudinal approaches have been used to explore this issue, generally finding significant associations between changes in population consumption and changes in liver disease mortality (Skog, 1980).…”

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Alcohol Consumption and Liver Disease in Australia: A Time Series Analysis of the Period 1935–2006

Jiang¹,

Livingston

Room

et al. 2013

Alcohol and Alcoholism

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Alcohol Consumption and Liver Disease in Australia: A Time Series Analysis of the Period 1935–2006

Jiang¹,

Livingston

Room

et al. 2013

Alcohol and Alcoholism

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“…The reasons why cirrhosis mortality fell and why the fall started when it did are unclear. A large fraction of cirrhosis mortality has long been associated in both medical and popular thinking with heavy drinking 1 2. Do changes in American drinking practices account for changes in the trend?…”

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Cirrhosis mortality and per capita consumption of distilled spirits, United States, 1949-94: trend analysis

Roizen

Kerr

Fillmore

1999

BMJ

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Objective To describe, evaluate, and suggest interpretations for an observed aggregate level relation between trends in mortality from cirrhosis and per capita consumption of distilled spirits in the United States. Design Trend analysis using data on US cirrhosis mortality and per capita alcohol consumption. Results There is a consistent long term trend relation between mortality from cirrhosis and per capita consumption of distilled spirits in the United States from 1949 to 1994. Two instances of comparatively sharp drops in the consumption of spirits earlier in the 1940s generated mixed results in predicting changes in cirrhosis mortality. Conclusions An aggregate level relation between trends in long term cirrhosis mortality and the consumption of spirits falls considerably short of establishing a direct causal link between the two for individuals. Moreover, two sharp drops in the consumption of spirits generated only mixed results with respect to the short term trend in cirrhosis. Nevertheless, the observed relation between the consumption of spirits and cirrhosis mortality merits further investigation.

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“…The idea that alcohol caused harm to others came to be seen as an old-fashioned temperance idea. Even in the medical literature on alcohol’s harm to the drinker, there was a wave of denial of relationships by respectable scholars, for instance of alcohol and liver cirrhosis [5], that now seems incredible.…”

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The Drinker’s Effect on the Social Environment: A Conceptual Framework for Studying Alcohol’s Harm to Others

Room

Ferris²,

Laslett

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IJERPH

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The paper considers conceptual and methodological issues in studying the scope of alcohol’s harm to others. Reasons are suggested for the relative neglect of the topic. The approaches in two relevant research traditions are considered: population surveys on alcohol problems, and economic cost of alcohol studies. Ways of conceptualizing and measuring aspects of the drinker’s effects on others are considered, in terms of main types of relationship with the other, and in terms of major societal response institutions. The main types of data tend to measure different levels of severity, with population survey data dominated by less severe problems, and response institution data by more severe problems; so both are needed for a three-dimensional view. Research questions for the field and its policy significance are noted.

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Ideology, history and changing models of liver cirrhosis epidemiology

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Cited by 22 publications

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Alcohol Consumption and Liver Disease in Australia: A Time Series Analysis of the Period 1935–2006

Alcohol Consumption and Liver Disease in Australia: A Time Series Analysis of the Period 1935–2006

Cirrhosis mortality and per capita consumption of distilled spirits, United States, 1949-94: trend analysis

The Drinker’s Effect on the Social Environment: A Conceptual Framework for Studying Alcohol’s Harm to Others

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