Alcohol-caused mortality in Australia and Canada: Scenario analyses using different assumptions about cardiac benefit

Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 345-352

  Stockwell, Tim ^a,b   Chikritzhs, Tanya ^a,b   Bostrom, Alan ^a,c   Fillmore, Kaye ^a,d   Kerr, William ^a,e   Rehm, Jürgen ^a,f   Taylor, Ben ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ALCOHOL RESEARCH GROUP   (United States)

^f CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANAMNESIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; HEART; HEART PROTECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 34248209505     PISSN: 19371888     EISSN: 19384114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15288/jsad.2007.68.345     Document Type: Article

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