Wholly attributable conditions can be easily identified by the inclusion of “alcohol” or “alcoholic” in their names, or by an ICD definition which identifies alcohol consumption as a necessary cause. With regard to the attribution of alcohol-relatedness, these conditions are by definition wholly attributable to alcohol with an alcohol-attributable fraction (AAF) of 100%, where AAF denotes the proportion of a certain disease category which would not have occurred had there been no alcohol consumption [14].
