[erenyeager]

Please see this paper and the sections on alcoholic cirrhosis

> In north Africa and the Middle East, alcohol-related liver disease constituted the lowest proportion of age-standardised prevalence and death rates.19 This finding could be expected, because alcohol is prohibited in many of the countries in this region, which could lead to both decreased use and the possibility of under-reporting.

> Among GBD regions, the highest proportions of cirrhosis deaths due to alcohol-related liver disease were in central Europe (44·0%), western Europe (41·7%), and Andean Latin America (38·1%; figure 4; appendix p 41). The proportion of cirrhosis deaths due to alcohol-related liver disease was lowest in north Africa and the Middle East (5·3%) and in Egypt specifically (4·8%), and highest in Belgium (53·5%; appendix p 41).

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1...

Also see these maps:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/t...

From this paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7650014/

[taeric]

Thanks for the links. Interesting data all around. Not entirely sure what to make of it, but I suspect most of that is from prejudices I hold on some of these areas.