Alcohol consumption and mortality among women

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 332, Issue 19, 1995, Pages 1245-1250

  Fuchs, Charles S ^a,b,c   Stampfer, Meir J ^a,d,e   Colditz, Graham A ^a,d   Giovannucci, Edward L ^a   Manson, Joann E ^a   Kawachi, Ichiro ^a,f   Hunter, David J ^a,d   Hankinson, Susan E ^a,d   Hennekens, Charles H ^a,b,d   Rosner, Bernard ^a,b,g   Speizer, Frank E ^a   Willett, Walter C ^a,d,e  

^a CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Division of Preventive Medicine   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics   (United States)

^e Nutrition Services   (United States)

^f Depts of Health and Social Behavior   (United States)

^g HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIET; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0029002587     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199505113321901     Document Type: Article

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