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Online Tools
Excessive alcohol use is the 3rd leading life-style related cause of
death in the United States. To assist professionals in state and local
public health departments to estimate the impact of alcohol-related deaths
and years of potential life lost (YPLL)—a measure of premature death—the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded the development of
the Alcohol-Related Disease Impact (ARDI) software. Originally released in
1989, ARDI software was specifically designed to allow states to calculate
alcohol-attributable deaths, YPLL, direct health-care costs, indirect
morbidity and morality costs, and non-health-sector costs associated with
alcohol misuse.
In 2002, with support from a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, the Alcohol Team in CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion began updating ARDI and migrating it to the
Internet to be more accessible to state-based epidemiologists and other
users. In September 2004, the new version of ARDI was released in
conjunction with a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report entitled
Alcohol-Attributable Deaths and Years of Potential Life Lost – United
States, 2001. That report highlighted that approximately 75,000
alcohol-attributable deaths occurred in 2001 resulting in approximately 2.3
million YPLLs. In February 2008, additional years of data were added, which
resulted in 5–year average annual estimates of health impacts based on the
years 2001-2005. This was done to produce more stable estimates than can be
obtained from single year data. Based on this enhancement, there were
approximately 79,000 deaths annually for the years from 2001–2005 that were
attributable to excessive alcohol use.
ARDI includes reports for all 50 states with options to view each report
by gender and age groups. Since the original release in 2004, ARDI has been
enhanced to include reports specifically focused on individuals under age 21
years. In addition, the
Custom Data feature has been enhanced to make it
easier for users to conduct sub-state analyses of alcohol-attributable
deaths and YPLL.
A future planned activity is a national report estimating the economic burden of
excessive alcohol use.
ARDI software can be accessed at
Alcohol-Related
Disease Impact software home.
Page last reviewed: August 6, 2008
Page last modified: August 6, 2008
Content source: Division of Adult and Community Health,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
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