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Disease burden and costs from excess alcohol consumption, obesity, and viral hepatitis: fourth report of the Lancet Standing Commission on Liver Disease in the UK

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This report contains new and follow-up metric data relating to the eight main recommendations of the Lancet Standing Commission on Liver Disease in the UK, which aim to reduce the unacceptable harmful consequences of excess alcohol consumption, obesity, and viral hepatitis. For alcohol, we provide data on alcohol dependence, damage to families, and the documented increase in alcohol consumption since removal of the above-inflation alcohol duty escalator. Alcoholic liver disease will shortly o...

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Published
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Peer reviewed

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10.1016/s0140-6736(17)32866-0

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Grant:
NF-SI-0616-10077
RP-PG-0609-10162
Publisher:
Elsevier Publisher's website
Journal:
Lancet Journal website
Volume:
391
Issue:
10125
Pages:
1097-1107
Publication date:
2017-11-29
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EISSN:
1474-547X
ISSN:
0140-6736
Pmid:
29198562
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
pubs:809624
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uuid:659cb150-7388-4d97-9365-d867fd43246c
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pubs:809624
Source identifiers:
809624
Deposit date:
2019-10-29

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