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Research has revealed a steep increase in liver disease in recent years. Meanwhile, there is growing evidence of health harms from alcohol, including drinking at levels that were previously considered “moderate.” These developments make a persuasive case for viewing alcohol consumption from a public health perspective. As an internal medicine physician and alcohol epidemiologist, I’m interested in the overlap between …

Scientists have pinpointed a hidden brain circuit that may explain why withdrawal drives people back to alcohol. Credit: Shutterstock Researchers at Scripps Research have shown in an animal model that the brain learns to pursue alcohol as a way to find relief, rather than only for its rewarding effects. What drives a person to keep drinking alcohol despite the harm …

A new study from the universities of Oxford, Yale and Cambridge has found that any level of alcohol consumption may increase risks of dementia. This wide-ranging study, published earlier this week on BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, suggested there may be no such thing as a “safe level” of booze, where brain health is concerned. Dr Anya Topiwala, lead author on the …

Drinking in moderation? Study warns even small amounts of alcohol may seriously harm brain health | Health  Hindustan Times There is no safe amount of alcohol when it comes to dementia, study finds  CNN Dementia: Drinking any amount of alcohol linked to higher risk  Medical News Today There May Be No Safe Amount of Booze When It Comes to Dementia Risk  ScienceAlert What’s the …

Getty Images The study suggests alcohol use, even at moderate levels, may have no safe threshold when it comes to brain health Any amount of alcohol consumption may increase the risk of dementia, a new large-scale study has found. The University of Oxford, Yale University, and the University of Cambridge have described their research into alcohol consumption and dementia risk …

We have heard this claim for years: having one or two drinks of alcohol every day might actually help the brain and keep dementia at bay. It sounded neat and tidy – and pleasantly convenient. But appealing stories are not always true, including this one, especially when they come from snapshots of messy human lives. Here is the …

Drinking any amount of alcohol increases your risk of dementia later in life, according to a new study that challenges prior research findings. Some research has suggested light drinking — such as fewer than seven drinks a week — may be more neuroprotective than no alcohol at all. Those studies, however, focused on older people and didn’t differentiate between former …

Excessive alcohol consumption can disrupt the liver’s unique regenerative abilities by trapping cells in limbo between their functional and regenerative states, even after a patient stops drinking, researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators at Duke University and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago describe in a new study. This in-between state is a result of inflammation disrupting how RNA …

Mayo Clinic researchers have pinpointed how excessive alcohol consumption contributes to fatty liver disease, a condition that affects more than one in three people in the U.S. Also known as Metabolic Dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease, it is a long-lasting disease that can lead to type 2 diabetes and even liver cancer. Excessive alcohol can contribute to this fatty disease …

Fewer Americans say they drink alcohol now than they have done for decades, but for those that do, the habit appears to have become dramatically deadlier over time, with the alcohol-related death rate in the U.S. almost doubling in the last twenty years. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles examined data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control …