... dimensions of alcohol exposure were included: average volume of alcohol consumption and patterns of drinking. There were also two main outcome measures: mortality, i.e. the number of deaths, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), i.e. the number of years of life lost to premature mortality...

...Jürgen Rehm; Nina Rehn; Robin Room; Maristela Monteiro; Gerhard Gmel; David Jernigan; Ulrich Frick Aims: To make quantitative estimates on a global basis of exposure of disease-relevant dimensions of alcohol consumption, i.e. average volume of alcohol consumption and patterns of drinking. Design...

... of exposure measures and take into consideration both average volume of consumption and patterns of drinking. 8 8 2001 Alcohol Acute consequences Chronic disease Overview Volume of drinking Patterns of drinking Counterfactual scenario Paper Eur Addict Res 2001;7:117 127 Relation between...

... for alcohol consumption and how can they be categorized? The average volume of alcohol and patterns of drinking were selected as dimensions. Both dimensions could be looked upon as continuous but were categorized for practical purposes. The average volume of drinking was categorized into the following...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Volume of drinking Patterns of drinking All-cause mortality Pooled cross-sectional time series Paper Eur Addict Res 2001;7:128 137 Methodological Approaches...

... of consumption, and patterns of drinking. Methods: Mortality data were obtained from the WHO EIP data bank, average volume data from the WHO global databank on alcohol, pattern of drinking data from a questionnaire sent out to experts, from the published literature and from the WHO global databank. Methods...