A quantitative alcohol history should be recorded for all patients, because alcohol use contributes to many physical and mental disorders. A person-centered, nonjudgmental approach should be adopted.

It is well known that alcohol consumption increases the risk of morbidity and mortality due to many health conditions 1,2, with even low levels of consumption increasing the risk for some cancers 3,4.

Data are from Rumgay et al. 6 ICD-10 denotes International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision. The number of new cases has been rounded to the nearest 100,000. The number of cases for each ...

A new analysis has found that consuming an average of two alcoholic drinks per day, or 14 per week, was linked to an ...