… reviews and meta-analyses, and individual studies on alcohol consumption and IHD risk
in a narrative review. Furthermore, we meta-analyze the role of heavy drinking patterns in …

… the role of drinking pattern, especially irregular heavy or binge drinking, in modifying … drinking
pattern, defined by the frequency of drinking days as well as drinking intensity per drinking …

… Although these results provide some support for the prediction that different motives are
associated with unique patterns of drinking, there are, however, several limitations to this …

… We hypothesize that the age-associated patterning in drinking behavior measured longitudinally,
although variable by the cross-sectional magnitude, will be similar across studies. It is …

… A second limitation is that we could not investigate the role of different drinking patterns
in modifying the effect of the total amount of alcohol consumed. In fact, the great majority of …

… and meta-analysis to investigate patterns of the association between alcohol drinking and risk
… studies, with additional focus on patterns with light alcohol drinking, in prospective studies, …

… for IHD could be substantially different from what has been estimated in the past without
taking into account a separate risk function for heavy episodic drinking patterns. Heavy …

… meta-analysis confirms the health hazards of heavy drinking (≥50 g/day) and benefits of light
drinking … However, the cumulative time, frequency, and pattern of alcohol drinking were not …

… present meta-analysis provides the evidence for an association between heavy alcohol drinking
(≥… However, pattern of drinking was not analyzed comprehensively in the present study, …

… Results of the meta‐analysis indicated a clear negative linear relationship between Support
… drinking. There was also a negative linear relationship between Control and drinking …