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. 2012 Feb;12(1):29-34.
doi: 10.7861/clinmedicine.12-1-29.

The need for a global alcohol strategy: 'upscaling the issue in a downstreaming environment'

Cordelia E M Coltart  1 , Ian T Gilmore
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The need for a global alcohol strategy: 'upscaling the issue in a downstreaming environment'

Cordelia E M Coltart et al. Clin Med (Lond). 2012 Feb.
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Global alcohol-attributable deaths as a percentage of total deaths by disease or injury 2004. The population-attributable fraction for diabetes mellitus is −0.1 and is, hence, not included in this figure. Reproduced from WHO Global Status Report on Alcohol 2011.
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