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Title
Alcohol and mortality from all causes
Publication type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
2004
Authors
Journal
Biological Research
Volume
37
Issue
2
Pagination
183 - 187
Date published
2004
ISBN
07169760 (ISSN)
Keywords
Adult, alcohol, alcohol consumption, Alcohol Drinking, alcoholic beverage, article, beer, blood pressure measurement, cancer, cardiovascular disease, Cardiovascular Diseases, cause of death, Cholesterol, cholesterol blood level, Cohort Studies, Denmark, France, human, Humans, ischemic heart disease, male, medical society, Middle Aged, morbidity, mortality, phenol derivative, physician, Prospective Studies, prospective study, protection, resveratrol, risk factor, Risk Factors, United Kingdom, United States, wine
Abstract
A large number of prospective studies have observed an inverse relationship between a moderate intake of alcohol and coronary heart disease morbidity and mortality. Concerning death from all-causes, results are not unanimous. Alcohol intake was associated with a protection of all-cause mortality in England and USA physicians and the large study of the American Cancer Society. None of these studies separated the effects of different alcoholic beverages. In our prospective studies in France on 35 000 middle-aged men, we observed that only wine at moderate intake, was associated with a protective effect on all-cause mortality. The reason was that in addition to the known effect on cardiovascular diseases, a very moderate intake of wine, protected also from cancer and other causes as confirmed by Gronback in Denmark. Our recent results also indicate that the protective effect of a moderate intake of wine on all-cause mortality is observed at all levels of blood pressure and serum cholesterol.