Does social integration confound the relation between alcohol consumption and mortality in the multiple risk factor intervention trial (MRFIT)?

Journal of Studies on Alcohol

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 740-745

  Murray, Robert P ^b   Rehm, Jürgen ^a,b   Shaten, Jessica ^b,c   Connett, John E ^b,c  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 0032722103     PISSN: 0096882X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15288/jsa.1999.60.740     Document Type: Article

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