Moderate drinking and loss of brain cells

doi:10.1136/bmj.309.6968.1581b

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Factor converting imperial to metric measures was wrong

Mark L Tattersall,
Sally White

Consultant psychiatrist Kenley Unit, Kingston Hospital, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT2 7QB General practitioner London SW15 6HG.

EDITOR,—Pekka J Karhunen and colleagues' thought provoking paper on moderate alcohol consumption and loss of cerebellar Purkinje cells seems to provide a further basis on which to advise our patients (and ourselves) on safe drinking limits.1 Those familiar with imperial measures may, however, have become alarmed that …