Illness was attributable to drinking commercial unpasteurized apple juice.
But today's government report downplays the potential benefits of alcohol, stating that "the net protective effect that may be attributable to drinking regularly at low levels appears to be significant only for women aged 55+ (with men aged over 55+ showing a protective effect of negligible size)".
3.63% of all cancer cases were attributable to alcohol drinking, with a total of 90,386 male cases (5.92%) and 3210 female cases (0.31%).
We found that a total of 78,881 cancer deaths were attributable to alcohol drinking in China in 2005, representing 4.40% of all cancers (6.69% in men, 0.42% in women).
Boffetta and colleagues [ 16] estimated that 3.5% of all cancers deaths (5.1% in men, 1.3% in women) and a similar proportion of cancer cases were attributable to alcohol drinking worldwide in 2002, also, Danaei and colleagues [ 17] estimated that 5% of all cancer deaths in low and middle-income countries were attributable to alcohol use in 2001.
For example, 16% of ambulance calls concerning college students were attributable to alcohol drinking in the USA, alcohol intoxication occupied 1.5% of adolescent hospital admissions in the Slovak Republic and the prevalence of hospitalisation owing to alcohol intoxication was increasing in the Netherlands.
Among males, 12.5% of the cancers in the study period were attributable to heavy drinking (⩾300 g of ethanol per week): 5.4% for the consumption of 300 449 g of ethanol per week and 7.1% for the consumption of ⩾450 g per week.
No respondents thought that past water-borne disease outbreaks due to contaminated drinking water were attributable to actual climate change; however, extreme weather events due to climate variability could be implicated.
We found about 84% of deaths were attributable to hypertension, physical inactivity, smoking, overweight-obesity, and binge drinking in our study.
Laboratory anomalies were attributable to comorbidities.
