Mortality associated with wines, beers, and spirits

BMJ 1995;311:1166 (28 October)

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Mortality associated with wines, beers, and spirits

Australian data suggest that choice of beverage relates to lifestyleand personality

EDITOR,--Morten Gronbaek and colleagues suggest that mortalityis lower in association with a moderate intake of wine, unchangedin association with a moderate intake of beer, and increasedin association with a moderate intake of spirits.¹ In theirstudy they used a different reference group of subjects foreach beverage considered--a group comprising teetotallers andbeer and wine drinkers for the spirits comparison and a groupcomprising teetotallers and spirits and beer drinkers for thewine comparison--which makes the findings difficult to interpret.More importantly, they consider that confounders are unlikelyto explain their results. In a group of working men in WesternAustralia, however, we found that their preference of beveragewas related to both volume of ethanol consumed and lifestylefactors linked with cardiovascular risk.

In 1986, 343 working men aged between 25 and 51 took . . . [Full text of this article]

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Mortality associated with moderate intakes of wine, beer, or spirits: Morten Gronbaek, Allan Deis, Thorkild I A Sorensen, Ulrik Becker, Peter Schnohr, and Gorm Jensen
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