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Factors influencing the relation between alcohol and mortality – with focus on wine
Author(s) -
GRØNBÆK M.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.625
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1365-2796
pISSN - 0954-6820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2796.2001.00885.x
Subject(s) - wine , medicine , confounding , environmental health , alcohol , population , prospective cohort study , demography , gerontology , food science , surgery , biology , biochemistry , sociology
. Grønbæk M (Kommunehospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark). Factors influencing the relation between alcohol and mortality – with focus on wine (Review Article). J Intern Med 2001; 250: 291–308. The impact of alcohol intake on mortality has been described in a large number of prospective population studies from many countries. Most have shown a J‐shaped relation between alcohol intake and subsequent mortality, indicating that there are both beneficial and harmful effects of ethanol on health. In exploring the French paradox, it has been suggested that wine may have beneficial effects additional to that of ethanol. Recently, several prospective population studies have supported this idea. However, it is also likely that the apparent additional beneficial effect of wine on health is confounding.