ArticleClinical medicine (London, England)2014
Impact of minimum price per unit of alcohol on patients with liver disease in the UK.
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- Noninvasive diagnosis in alcohol-related liver disease.Health science reports · 2020Article
- Exploring the gap in the public's understanding of the links between alcohol and cancer.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2020Article
- Public health policies and alcohol-related liver disease.JHEP reports : innovation in hepatology · 2019Review
- Comparing alcohol taxation throughout the European Union.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2019Article
- Influence of Societal Restraints on Alcohol Use and Alcohol-Related Liver Disease.Clinical liver disease · 2019Review
- Heterogenous wealth effects of minimum unit price on purchase of alcohol: Evidence using scanner data.PloS one · 2019Article
- Strong cider sold in scotland appears to be almost exclusively for dependent drinkers.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2016Article
- Alcohol purchasing by ill heavy drinkers; cheap alcohol is no single commodity.Public health · 2015Article
- Alcoholic liver disease - the extent of the problem and what you can do about it.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2015Review
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Abstract
The slow epidemic of liver disease in the UK over the past 30 years is a result of increased consumption of strong cheap alcohol. When we examined alcohol consumption in 404 subjects with a range of liver disease, we confirmed that patients with alcohol-related cirrhosis drank huge amounts of cheap alcohol, with a mean weekly consumption of 146 units in men and 142 in women at a median price of 33p/unit compared with £1.10 for low-risk drinkers. For the patients in our study, the impact of a minimum unit price of 50p/unit on spending on alcohol would be 200 times higher for patients with liver disease who were drinking at harmful levels than for low-risk drinkers. As a health policy, a minimum unit price for alcohol is exquisitely targeted at the heaviest drinkers, for whom the impact of alcohol-related illness is most devastating.
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