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For millennia, wine and other alcoholic beverages have been associated with health and for centuries were a part of the physician's pharmacopoeia. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the pu...

Moderate drinking has complex associations with cardiovascular diseases other than coronary heart disease. Recent cohort studies examining the relationship between alcohol use and ischemic stroke have...

We have provided recent evidence suggesting that a systematic error may be operating in prospective epidemiological mortality studies that have reported “light” or “moderate” regular use of alcohol to...

Evidence that links moderate wine consumption to cardiovascular health corresponds mostly to ecological observations. Intervention studies using moderate wine consumption with ischemic heart disease a...

Light to moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a reduced risk for cardiovascular diseases. Epidemiologic studies, like our analysis of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and ...

Alcohol consumption may increase the risk for at least six types of cancer, although the evidence is not uniformly strong. Alcohol is not a carcinogen in standard tests but is likely a cocarcinogen, a...

In an attempt to relate “moderate drinking” to “mental health,” inadequacies of definition for both terms become apparent. Moderate drinking can be variously defined by a certain number of drinks to “...

This discussion focused on the effects of moderate alcohol consumption on conditions other than cardiovascular diseases and on total mortality. The panel was chaired by Richard Smallwood, and the pane...

The PRIME Study was begun in 1991 and recruited 10,600 men aged 50 to 59 years in the WHO MONICA Project centers of Belfast, Lille, Strasbourg and Toulouse. Although drinkers in France and Northern Ir...

This paper provides an overview of mental health and alcohol use in developing countries. The review shows that mental disorders are common and pose a significant burden on the health of developing na...

This discussion focused on the implications of the available evidence on the benefits and risks of moderate drinking for future research. The panel was chaired by Eric Rimm and panelists were Francois...

Chief Medical Officers, or others directly responsible for the health of a population, have difficulty in dealing with alcohol. They must decide where to draw the line to minimize harm, as there is no...

This discussion focused on the benefits and risks of moderate drinking in terms of communications to the public, through governmental regulations, official guidelines, the press, and advice to individ...

What do we know today about the risks and benefits of moderate alcohol consumption? While all may not agree, I believe that, for most people for whom alcohol is not contraindicated by health, ethical,...