All-cause mortality rates are lower among moderate drinkers than among abstainers

Monday, July 11, 2011 - 14:30 in Health & Medicine

The author of a new article set out to determine the extent to which potential "errors" in many early epidemiologic studies led to erroneous conclusions about an inverse association between moderate drinking and coronary heart disease. But the results showed that non-drinkers had a much higher risk of death than did almost all categories of subjects consuming alcohol.

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