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Study finds consuming alcohol during pandemic linked to more liver disease
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Boston [US], December 26 (ANI): Researchers have projected the rates of liver disease and associated deaths due to increased alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Consuming alcohol during pandemic projected to cause more liver disease, d
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Boston [US], December 21 (ANI): A study has projected rates of liver disease and associated deaths due to increased alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Study links alcohol consumption to more than 740,000 new cancer cases in 2
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 17 (ANI): According to a study, four per cent of newly diagnosed cancer cases in 2020 may be associated with drinking alcohol. The authors called for greater public awareness of the link between alcohol and cancers and increased government interventions to reduce alcoho
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Alcohol consumption linked to more than 740,000 new cancer cases in 2020:
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 14 (ANI): Alcohol is estimated to have caused more than 740,000 cancer cases around the world last year, a global study suggested.
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Here's why overweight people should not consume alcohol!
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Sydney [Australia], June 1 (ANI): A study led by the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre observed medical data from nearly half a million people and found that people who are obese and overweight worsens liver-damaging effects of alcohol.
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Smartphone breathalyzer alcohol testing devices vary widely in accuracy: S
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Pennsylvania [US], May 16 (ANI): A new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania finds that some of the personal alcohol breath testing devices were found to be relatively accurate, while others may mislead users into thinking that they are fit to drive.
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Vegetarians have healthier levels of disease markers than meat-eaters: Stu
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], May 9 (ANI): Vegetarians appear to have a healthier biomarker profile than meat-eaters, and this applies to adults of any age and weight, and is also unaffected by smoking and alcohol consumption, according to a new study in over 166,000 UK adults, being presented at week's Euro
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Alcohol, sexist attitudes combine to increase male violence towards women,
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 29 (ANI): In a study of men in low- and middle-income countries, heavy drinking males were more likely to commit violence against their wives and girlfriends (intimate partner violence, or IPV) if they held sexist rather than egalitarian attitudes about women.
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Study reveals unhealthy lifestyle only explains small part of health inequ
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
London [UK], April 15 (ANI): Unhealthy lifestyles alone only explain a small proportion of the socioeconomic inequity in health in both US and UK adults, suggest data from two large studies published by The BMJ today.
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How environmental exposures before conception may impact fetal development
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Michigan [US], March 18 (ANI): A new report published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests older age and alcohol consumption in the year leading up to conception also may have an impact by epigenetically altering a specific gene during the development of human eggs or
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Here's how calorie label on alcohol drinks may affect obesity
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Liverpool [UK], February 6 (ANI): According to the findings of a novel study, calorie labelling which is mandatory on alcoholic drinks could address both alcohol consumption and obesity.
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Alcohol, calories, and obesity: Could labelling make a difference?
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 3 (ANI): Mandatory calorie labelling of alcoholic drinks could possibly address both alcohol consumption and obesity.
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