Per capita alcohol consumption and ischemic heart disease mortality in a panel of US states from 1950 to 2002

Addiction

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 313-322

  Kerr, William C ^a   Karriker Jaffe, Katherine ^a   Subbaraman, Meenakshi ^a   Ye, Yu ^a  

^a ALCOHOL RESEARCH GROUP   (United States)

Author keywords

Ischemic heart disease; Per capita alcohol; Time series

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE; ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; COMMERCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; SMOKING; TEMPERANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650846541     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03195.x     Document Type: Article

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