Letter to the editor concerning: “Alcohol-attributable mortality in Switzerland in 2011 – age-specific causes of death and impact of heavy versus non-heavy drinking”

Josef G. Heckmann

doi:10.4414/smw.2014.14028

Technical comment

Vol. 144 No. 3940 (2014)

Letter to the editor concerning: “Alcohol-attributable mortality in Switzerland in 2011 – age-specific causes of death and impact of heavy versus non-heavy drinking”

Josef G. Heckmann

Cite this as:: Swiss Med Wkly. 2014;144:w14028
Published: 21.09.2014

References

Marmet S, Rehm J, Gmel G, Frick H, Gmel G. Alcohol-attributable mortality in Switzerland in 2011 – age-specific causes of death and impact of heavy versus non-heavy drinking. Swiss Med Wkly. 2014;144:w13947. http://www.smw.ch/content/smw-2014-13947
No authors listed. „Binge“ drinking and stroke. Lancet. 1983;2(8351):660–1.
Sundell L, Salomaa V, Vartiainen E, Poikolainen K, Laatikainen T. Increased stroke risk is related to a binge drinking habit. Stroke. 2008;39:3179–84.
Lai CL, Liu MT, Yin SJ, Lee JT, Lu CC, Peng GS. Heavy binge drinking may increase risk of strroke in nonalcoholic hypertensives carrying variant ALDH2*2 gene allele. Acta Neurol Taiwan. 2012;21:39–43.
Tremblay PF, Graham K, Wells S, Harris R, Pulford R, Roberts SE. When do first-year college students drink most during the academic year? An internet-based study of daily and weekly drinking. J Am Coll Health. 2010;58:401–11.
Bélanger RE, Ohl F, Berchtold A, Akre C, Suris JC. Social contexts of sport-practicing youth´s hazardous drinking. Swiss Med Wkly. 2012;142:w13526.
Daeppen JB, Anex F, Leutwyler J, Gammeter R, Darioli R, Pécoud A. Binge drinking in 19 year old men. Swiss Med Wkly. 2005;135:179–83.
O’Keefe JH, Bhatti SK, Bajwa A, DiNicolantonio JJ, Lavie CJ. Alcohol and cardiovascular health: the dose makes the poison…or the remedy. Mayo Clin Proceed. 2014;89:382–93.
Gmel G, Givel JC, Yersin B, Daeppen JB. Injury and repeated injury – what is the link with acute consumption, binge drinking and chronic heavy alcohol use? Swiss Med Wkly. 2007;137:642–48.
Conforti FP, Smego DR, Kazarian KK. Halloween appendicitis: pin perforation of the appendix. Conn Med. 1987;51:507.
Breitenbach RA. “Halloween diarrhea”. An unexpected trick of sorbitol-containing candy. Postgrad Med. 1992;92:63–6.
Schwartz J. Halloween psychosis. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1992;40:297.

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[1] Marmet S, Rehm J, Gmel G, Frick H, Gmel G. Alcohol-attributable mortality in Switzerland in 2011 – age-specific causes of death and impact of heavy versus non-heavy drinking. Swiss Med Wkly. 2014;144:w13947. http://www.smw.ch/content/smw-2014-13947

[2] No authors listed. „Binge“ drinking and stroke. Lancet. 1983;2(8351):660–1.

[3] Sundell L, Salomaa V, Vartiainen E, Poikolainen K, Laatikainen T. Increased stroke risk is related to a binge drinking habit. Stroke. 2008;39:3179–84.

[4] Lai CL, Liu MT, Yin SJ, Lee JT, Lu CC, Peng GS. Heavy binge drinking may increase risk of strroke in nonalcoholic hypertensives carrying variant ALDH2*2 gene allele. Acta Neurol Taiwan. 2012;21:39–43.

[5] Tremblay PF, Graham K, Wells S, Harris R, Pulford R, Roberts SE. When do first-year college students drink most during the academic year? An internet-based study of daily and weekly drinking. J Am Coll Health. 2010;58:401–11.

[6] Bélanger RE, Ohl F, Berchtold A, Akre C, Suris JC. Social contexts of sport-practicing youth´s hazardous drinking. Swiss Med Wkly. 2012;142:w13526.

[7] Daeppen JB, Anex F, Leutwyler J, Gammeter R, Darioli R, Pécoud A. Binge drinking in 19 year old men. Swiss Med Wkly. 2005;135:179–83.

[8] O’Keefe JH, Bhatti SK, Bajwa A, DiNicolantonio JJ, Lavie CJ. Alcohol and cardiovascular health: the dose makes the poison…or the remedy. Mayo Clin Proceed. 2014;89:382–93.

[9] Gmel G, Givel JC, Yersin B, Daeppen JB. Injury and repeated injury – what is the link with acute consumption, binge drinking and chronic heavy alcohol use? Swiss Med Wkly. 2007;137:642–48.

[10] Conforti FP, Smego DR, Kazarian KK. Halloween appendicitis: pin perforation of the appendix. Conn Med. 1987;51:507.

[11] Breitenbach RA. “Halloween diarrhea”. An unexpected trick of sorbitol-containing candy. Postgrad Med. 1992;92:63–6.

[12] Schwartz J. Halloween psychosis. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1992;40:297.