4. Alcohol is injurious to health.अंडरलाइन द नाउन इन द फॉलोइंग सेंटेंस
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There is no safe limit for drinking alcohol. Alcohol at any level is injurious to health. This loud and clear message emerges from a global burden of disease (GBD) study published on August 23. It estimates the levels of alcohol use and health effects in 195 countries between 1990 to 2016.
The humongous study provided robust estimates of alcohol consumption and related risks based on 694 data sources on individual and population-level alcohol consumption, along with 592 studies on the risk of alcohol use. More than 500 GBD collaborators, such as researchers, academics and others from more than 40 nations contributed to it.
Worldwide, alcohol is associated with 2.8 million deaths each year. The study itself highlighted the following chilling facts (quoted verbatim):
Globally, one in three people drink alcohol (equivalent to 2.4 billion people), and 2.2% of women and 6.8% of men die from alcohol-related health problems each year.
Alcohol use was ranked as the seventh leading risk factor for premature death and disability worldwide in 2016, and was the leading cause for people aged 15-49 years old. In this age group, it is associated with tuberculosis, road injuries, and self-harm.
For people aged 50 years and older, cancers were a leading cause of alcohol-related death, constituting 27.1% of deaths in women and 18.9% of deaths in men.