Has the leaning tower of presumed health benefits from 'moderate' alcohol use finally collapsed?
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Sven Andréasson; Timothy S. Naimi; Frida Dangardt; Tim Stockwell; Wenbin Liang; Tanya Chikritzhs
- Source
- Addiction (Abingdon, England). 110(5)
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Moderate alcohol use
Alcohol Drinking
Ethanol
business.industry
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Health benefits
Protective Agents
Causality
Psychiatry and Mental health
Risk Factors
Environmental health
Epidemiology
Chronic Disease
Medicine
Humans
Observational study
business
Tower
Alcohol consumption
- Language
- ISSN
- 1360-0443
The evolving epidemiological literature, including improved methodology for assessing causality in observational studies, is raising doubts about whether moderate alcohol consumption has a protective effect on health.