Abstract In 1980, 87,526 female nurses 34 to 59 years of age completed a dietary
questionnaire that assessed their consumption of beer, wine, and liquor. By 1984, during …

Moderate alcohol consumption has been associated with a reduction in the risk of
myocardial infarction (MI) in men. To evaluate this relation in young women, we studied 513 …

Since 1965, the Honolulu Heart Program has followed up 8,006 men in a prospective study
of cardiovascular disease. Of those subjects free of stroke at the time of study entry, 2,916 …

Alcohol might contribute to stroke in several ways: induction of cardiac arrhythmias and
cardiac wall motion abnormalities which predispose to cerebral embolism, induction of …

Purpose The risks of alcohol consumption and its association with stroke were studied in
621 patients with stroke and 573 control subjects using case-control methods. Patients and …

We conducted a retrospective case-control study to investigate a possible association
between alcohol intake and stroke. Reported recent alcohol consumption and biochemical …

OBJECTIVE--To investigate the hypothesis that the apparent protective effect of habitual
alcohol consumption on coronary heart disease is due to drinkers at high risk of coronary …

Although an inverse association between alcohol consumption and risk of coronary artery
disease has been consistently found in several types of studies, some have argued that the …

An extensive search of the English-language literature identified 62 epidemiologic studies
that examined the relation between moderate alcohol consumption and risk of stroke …

OBJECTIVE--To examine the relation between alcohol consumption and risk factors for
coronary heart disease in women. DESIGN--Cross sectional study of a stratified random …