Moderate Alcohol Consumption and the Risk of Mortality

Demography

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1105-1125

  Fuller, Theodore D ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Coronary heart disease mortality; Mortality; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960481520     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-011-0035-2     Document Type: Review

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