The protective effect of moderate alcohol consumption on ischemic stroke

JAMA

Volumn 281, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-60

  Sacco, Ralph L ^a,b,c,d   Elkind, Mitchell ^a   Boden Albala, Bernadette ^a   Lin, I Feng ^a   Kargman, Douglas E ^a   Hauser, W Allen ^a,b,c   Shea, Steven ^a,c   Paik, Myunghee C ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Sch of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

^d NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

EID: 0033528070     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.281.1.53     Document Type: Article

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