ReviewAlcohol research : current reviews2015
Alcohol's Effects on Lung Health and Immunity.
Review in Alcohol research : current reviews, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 96 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
96 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 141 citations in OpenAlex.
- A review of the relationship between dimensions of alcohol consumption and the burden of disease: 2026 update including Mendelian randomisation studies.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Pooled it
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- Alcohol consumption as a risk factor for tuberculosis: meta-analyses and burden of disease.The European respiratory journal · 2017Pooled it
- The relationship between different dimensions of alcohol use and the burden of disease-an update.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2017Pooled it
- Association of substance use with outcomes in mildly ill COVID-19 outpatients.The American journal of emergency medicine · 2023Trial
- Alcohol Consumption Is Associated with Poor Prognosis in Obese Patients with COVID-19: A Mendelian Randomization Study Using UK Biobank.Nutrients · 2021Trial
- Impact of alcohol consumption on tuberculosis treatment outcomes: a prospective longitudinal cohort study protocol.BMC infectious diseases · 2018Trial
- What Do We Know About Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Nigeria? A Narrative Review.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Special Issue "Alcohol and Inflammation".International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
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- Prospective association between circadian syndrome and incident chronic lung disease in the CHARLS and ELSA cohorts.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Timeless and Stainless Alcohol: Concentric Waves from Its Oxidative Metabolism and Related Oxidative Stress.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Targeting PTP4A3 with KVX-053 mitigates alcohol-amplified SARS-CoV-2 spike protein-induced acute lung injury.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Article
- Independent and joint effects of lifestyle, human leukocyte antigen polymorphisms on cancer risk: findings from the UK Biobank.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Article
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- Prevalence and Clustering of Lifestyle Risk Factors for Chronic Diseases Among Middle-Aged Migrants in Japan.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Alcohol-induced susceptibility to pulmonary bacterial infections: A narrative review.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2025Review
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- Predicting 28-day all-cause unplanned hospital re-admission of patients with alcohol use disorders: a machine learning approach.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2025Article
- Hospitalized Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Disease Patients and Their Outcomes in the United States: A Retrospective Study Using National Inpatient Sample Data.Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.) · 2025Article
36 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
It has long been known that people with alcohol use disorder (AUD) not only may develop physical dependence but also may experience devastating long-term health problems. The most common and identifiable alcohol-associated health problems include liver cirrhosis, pancreatitis, cardiomyopathies, neuropathies, and dementia. However, the lung also is adversely affected by alcohol abuse, a fact often overlooked by clinicians and the public. Individuals with AUD are more likely to develop pneumonia, tuberculosis (TB), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection, and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Increased susceptibility to these and other pulmonary infections is caused by impaired immune responses in people with AUD. The key immune cells involved in combating pulmonary conditions such as pneumonia, TB, RSV infection, and ARDS are neutrophils, lymphocytes, alveolar macrophages, and the cells responsible for innate immune responses. Researchers are only now beginning to understand how alcohol affects these cells and how these effects contribute to the pathophysiology of pulmonary diseases in people with AUD.
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