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The Effect of Alcohol Consumption on the Risk of ARDS

journal.chestnet.org July 31, 2018

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Chronic high alcohol consumption significantly increases the risk of ARDS. This finding suggests that patients admitted to hospital should be screened for chronic alcohol use. Seventeen observational studies (177,674 people) met the inclusion criteria. Meta-analysis of 13 studies showed that any measure of high relative to low alcohol consumption was associated with a significantly increased risk of ARDS.

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