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The relationship between increasing amounts of average daily alcohol consumption and the relative risk for digestive diseases (i.e., liver cirrhosis and pancreatitis), with lifetime abstainers serving as the reference group. For liver cirrhosis, alcohol’s effects on mortality are greater than those on morbidity, and slight differences exist between the effects in men and women.
SOURCE: Lim et al. 2012.
