Diet, nutrition and the prevention of hypertension and cardiovascular diseases

KS Reddy, MB Katan - Public health nutrition, 2004 - cambridge.org
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are growing contributors to global disease burdens, with
epidemics of CVD advancing across many regions of the world which are experiencing a …

Exploring psychological benefits associated with moderate alcohol use: a necessary corrective to assessments of drinking outcomes?

S Peele, A Brodsky - Drug and alcohol dependence, 2000 - Elsevier
The aim of this paper is to identify positive psychological concomitants of moderate alcohol
consumption. Current research and public-health perspectives on alcohol emphasize harms …

On the development and psychometric testing of the WHO screening instrument to assess disablement in the general population

J Rehm, TB Üstün, S Saxena… - … Journal of Methods …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The development and psychometric testing of the new World Health Organization (WHO)
disablement screening instrument for the general population is described. Two samples …

Measuring quantity, frequency, and volume of drinking

J Rehm - Alcoholism: clinical and experimental research, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
This paper is based on the first sessions of the same name that were held on May 12, 1997
at the International Workshop on Consumption Measures and Models for Use in Policy …

Alcohol consumption and mortality: modelling risks for men and women at different ages

IR White, DR Altmann, K Nanchahal - Bmj, 2002 - bmj.com
Objective: To estimate the relation between alcohol consumption and risk of death, the level
of alcohol consumption at which risk is least, and how these vary with age and sex Design …

Associations between taste genetics, oral sensation and alcohol intake

VB Duffy, JM Peterson, LM Bartoshuk - Physiology & behavior, 2004 - Elsevier
Alcohol produces a range of oral sensations, some of which have been shown to vary with
the perceived bitterness of 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP), one marker for genetic variation in …

Alcohol consumption over time and risk of death: a systematic review and meta-analysis

H Jayasekara, DR English, R Room… - American journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The results from the few cohort studies that have measured usual alcohol consumption over
time have not been summarized. We therefore conducted a systematic review and meta …

How stable is the risk curve between alcohol and all-cause mortality and what factors influence the shape? A precision-weighted hierarchical meta-analysis

G Gmel, E Gutjahr, J Rehm - European journal of epidemiology, 2003 - Springer
Objective: To determine the influence of six determining variables on the shape of the risk
curve between alcohol and all-cause mortality. Methods: Data: Based on a systematic …

Low-risk drinking guidelines: the scientific evidence

SJ Bondy, J Rehm, MJ Ashley, G Walsh… - Canadian journal of …, 1999 - Springer
Abstract In 1997 the Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario and Canadian Centre on
Substance Abuse released updated guidelines for low-risk alcohol consumption. This paper …

Alcohol‐attributable mortality and potential years of life lost in Canada 2001: implications for prevention and policy

J Rehm, J Patra, S Popova - Addiction, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Background Alcohol is one of the most important risk factors for burden of disease. Objective
To estimate the number of deaths and the years of life lost attributable to alcohol for Canada …