Jayadeep Patra

..Descriptions of the effects of moderate alcohol consumption during pregnancy on adverse pregnancy outcomes have been inconsistent...

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..This meta-analysis is the first to explicitly separate morbidity and mortality of alcohol-attributable stroke and thus has implications for public health and prevention...

..Smoking is one of the most important risk factors for burden of disease. Our objective was to estimate the number of hospital diagnoses and days of treatment attributable to smoking for Canada, 2002...

..Overall, we conclude that alcohol consumption is one of the major avoidable risk factors, and actions to reduce burden and costs associated with alcohol should be urgently increased...

..The aim of this study was to estimate costs attributable to substance use and misuse in Canada in 2002...

..The aim of this study was to estimate the impact of the privatisation of alcohol sales on the burden and direct health-care, law enforcement costs and indirect costs (lost productivity due to disability or premature mortality) in Canada...

..The purpose of this article was to estimate the number of hospitalizations, hospital days, and the resulting costs attributable to alcohol for Canada in 2002...

..To address these questions and to provide a quantitative assessment of the association between alcohol intake and risk of liver cirrhosis, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort and case-control studies...

..6. A mixture of prevention and harm reduction measures is proposed to reduce the burden of morbidity associated with drug use...

..To analyze the dose-response relationship between average daily alcohol consumption and the risk of hypertension via systematic review and meta-analysis...

..This study aimed to estimate the number of non-medical prescription opioid (PO) users in the general and street drug using populations in Canada...

..This analysis aimed to estimate the burden of disease and injury caused and prevented by alcohol in 2004 for Canadians aged 0-69 years and compare the effects of different magnitudes of adjustment of survey data on these estimates...

..Using data from a multi-site cohort study of illicit opioid users in five Canadian cities (OPICAN), this paper explores the prevalence and predictors of HCV status in this high-risk population...

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..Alcohol causes a considerable criminal burden on the Canadian society. The purpose of this study is to estimate the avoidable burden and avoidable costs of alcohol-attributable criminality in Canada for the year 2002...

..To clarify the dose-response relationship between alcohol consumption and type 2 diabetes...

..To estimate avoidable burden and avoidable costs of alcohol abuse in Canada for the year 2002...

..Cigarette smoking is a major contributor to mortality in Canada and its impact on Canadian society continues to be an unacceptable burden...

..To examine possible differences between crack users and crack non-users across Canada...

..A comprehensive review of cost drivers associated with alcohol abuse, heavy drinking, and alcohol dependence for high-income countries was conducted...

..Although a sizable reduction in the number of hospital days and accumulated costs could be achieved, overall these interventions would reduce less than 3% of all tobacco-attributable costs in Canada...

..The impetus to begin refining methods to obtain better starting points for estimating avoidable burden of disease is obvious and should be carried through in order to see real changes through evidence-based policy and intervention...

..Absolute risk reflects long-term effects of drinking patterns and is important for risk-communication and alcohol-control policy...

..8%) and 2.2% of global burden of disease (men 2.7%; women 1.7%). The present work portrays accumulated evidence on the association between alcohol consumption and TB with the aim to clarify the nature of the relationship...

..Accordingly, using new methodology we estimated 1) the number of deaths caused and prevented by alcohol consumption, and 2) the potential years of life lost (PYLLs) attributable to alcohol consumption in Canada in 2005...

..3,914,680 (23,528 €). To date, only a few studies exist that have examined the cost-benefit of psychotherapy or pharmacotherapy treatment of AD. Most of the available treatment options for AD appear to produce marked economic benefits...

..The methodology is applied to estimate global alcohol exposure for the year 2002. Finally, assumptions and potential problems of the approach are discussed...

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..Given the current political climate and the tentative position of SIFs and HAT in Canada, understanding the public's opinion is crucial for the feasibility and long-term sustainability of these interventions...

..The aim of this study was to examine recent research studies published from 2000 to 2008 focusing on availability of alcohol: hours and days of sale and density of alcohol outlets...

..Alcohol consumption is a factor that increases risk of chronic disease. This study estimates various indicators of alcohol-attributable premature chronic-disease morbidity and mortality for Canada in 2002...

..To describe the volume of alcohol consumption and patterns of drinking in the World Health Organization (WHO) European regions in 2002 and to estimate quantitatively the burden of disease attributable to alcohol in that year...

..Acceptable thresholds will be different if the risk is to oneself or to others...

..Alcohol is one of the most important risk factors for burden of disease...

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..This analysis estimated alcohol-attributable burden of disease for Switzerland...

..This study highlights potential factors relevant for improved MMT uptake and illustrates possible reductions of drug use related to MMT...

..Our findings demonstrate an important role of alcohol cessation on esophageal and head and neck carcinogenesis...