Alcohol: No cardio‐protective benefit for overweight adults?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 582-

  Lobstein, Tim ^a   Daube, Mike ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; RISK FACTOR; UNITED KINGDOM; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; RISK FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84871821653     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: 17536405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2012.00958.x     Document Type: Letter

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