Nikita Mitkin

• UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Background Alcohol-related mortality in Russia exceeds the world average and presents a critical public health concern. This study assesses the impact of alcohol consumption levels on mortality and investigates mortality predictors among Russians, including people treated for alcohol-related diagnoses (narcology patients). Methods We examined 2629...

Aim. To assess the association between levels of alcohol consumption and lipid metabolism parameters among adult men. Materials and methods. The study included 881 men aged 35–69 from the general population of Arkhangelsk, who participated in the 2015–17 Know Your Heart study, and 161 men who received inpatient treatment for alcohol-related diagnos...

Investigating the relationship between alcohol consumption and physical performance, we used data from the 2015–2018 Know Your Heart study on 4215 adults aged 35–69 from Arkhangelsk and Novosibirsk, Russia. We classified participants’ drinking status into non-drinking, non-problem drinking, hazardous drinking, and harmful drinking based on their se...

Cross-sectional studies are commonly found in Russian medical literature. However, a significant number of these studies fail to consider sample size calculation during the planning phase, often relying on basic statistical methods. This not only restricts the usefulness of the data but also increases the risk of drawing inaccurate conclusions. The...

There is conflicting evidence about the association between alcohol consumption and body composition (BC). We aimed to investigate this association in Russian adults. The study population included 2357 residents of Arkhangelsk aged 35–69 years, and 272 in-patients treated for alcohol problems (narcological patients) who participated in the Know You...