The relation of alcohol intake to coronary heart disease and all-cause mortality in a beer-drinking population

Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 150-156

  Keil, Ulrich ^a,b   Chambless, Lloyd E ^a,c   Döring, Angela ^b   Filipiak, Birgit ^b   Stieber, Jutta ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c IL   (United States)

Author keywords

alcohol; beer drinking population; cohort study; L shaped coronary heart disease curve; U shaped total mortality curve

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BEER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031051652     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199703000-00005     Document Type: Article

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