The question of moderate drinking and health returned to the headlines with a vengeance following the publications of a major study in the Lancet using data from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2016.
The review, which used 592 studies including 28 million people worldwide to study the health risks associated with alcohol, concludes that any possible protective effects of moderate drinking are outweighed by its adverse effects on other aspects of health, particularly cancers.
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