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Excessive alcohol use is the 3rd leading life-style related cause of
death in the United States each year. In order 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, the 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 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. The new version
of ARDI was released in September 2004 along with a Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report titled
Alcohol-Attributable Deaths and Years of Potential Life Lost – United
States, 2001. The report highlighted that approximately 75,000
alcohol-attributable deaths occurred in 2001 resulting in approximately 2.3
million YPLLs. The majority of these deaths were the result of acute
conditions including motor-vehicle traffic crashes, suicide and violence.
ARDI includes reports for all 50 states with options to view each report
by gender and age groups. Since the release, ARDI has been expanded to
include reports specifically focused on individuals under age 21. 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.
Future enhancements to the software will include reports calculating the
rate of alcohol-attributable deaths and YPLL, the expansion of data from
single year estimates to 3– and 5–year average estimates of health impacts,
and reports estimating the economic burden of excessive alcohol use.
ARDI software can be accessed at
Alcohol-Related
Disease Impact software home.
Page last reviewed: April 2, 2008
Page last modified: June 5, 2006
Content source: Division of Adult and Community Health,
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and
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