Has alcohol been proven to be protective against coronary heart disease?

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-46

  Fillmore, Kaye Middleton ^a,e   Kerr, William C ^b   Stockwell, Tim ^c,d   Chikritzhs, Tanya ^d   Bostrom, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ALCOHOL RESEARCH GROUP   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Box 0840 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Coronary heart disease; Meta analysis; Systematic error

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947406777     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16066350701251965     Document Type: Note

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