The overall impact of alcohol consumption on mortality can be assessed in several ways.
These include combining relative risk of case-fatality indicators for various alcohol-caused …

Moderate consumers of alcohol have lower mortality than either nondrinkers or heavy
drinkers. This systematic review aimed to quantify the level of alcohol consumption (termed …

Objectives: Pre-existing conditions have been postulated as possible causes of the J-
shaped relationship between alcohol intake and cardiovascular disease. Two research …

The heart and vascular system are susceptible to the harmful effects of alcohol. Alcohol is an
active toxin that undergoes widespread diffusion throughout the body, causing multiple …

Background Low-risk limits recommended for alcohol consumption vary substantially across
different national guidelines. To define thresholds associated with lowest risk for all-cause …

Purpose Low-to-moderate alcohol consumption is associated with decreased mortality.
However, many aspects of this association are still debated. Our aim was to complement …

Alcohol has a hormetic physiological behavior that results in either increased or decreased
cardiovascular risk depending on the amount consumed, drinking frequency, pattern of …

The relationship between alcohol consumption and health outcomes has a long history and
has generated much research. Heavy drinking is detrimental to health; however, there is …

Modest drinking has been repeatedly discussed in scientific papers as protective against
certain diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, but in most cases, alcohol worsens …

A large number of prospective population studies from many countries have described a J-or
U-shaped relation between alcohol intake and mortality. Both heavy drinkers and abstainers …