Light-to-moderate drinking and dementia risk: The former drinkers problem re-visited

Addiction Research and Theory

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 181-193

  Roizen, Ron ^a   Fillmore, Kaye ^a,b   Chikritzhs, Tanya ^c   Stockwell, Tim ^c,d  

^a Scientific Analysis Corporation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abstainer misclassification; Alcohol; Cognitive impairment; Dementia; Former drinkers problem; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876768985     PISSN: 16066359     EISSN: 14767392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/16066359.2012.706343     Document Type: Review

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