Importance A previous meta-analysis of the association between alcohol use and all-cause
mortality found no statistically significant reductions in mortality risk at low levels of …

Stomach cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. The relationship between
alcohol consumption and the risk of stomach cancer remains unclear. Epidemiology studies …

Background Moderate consumption of alcohol is inversely related with coronary disease, but
its association with mortality is controversial. We performed a meta-analysis of prospective …

PURPOSE: We conducted a prospective cohort study to examine the association between
alcohol intake and the risk of all-cause mortality among middle-aged and elderly Japanese …

Background: We examined the associations of alcohol consumption and liver holidays with
all-cause mortality and with mortality due to cancer, heart disease, cerebrovascular disease …

Aims The purpose of this paper is to outline alcohol availability, alcohol consumption and
related harm, alcohol control policy and prevention programmes in Japan, few of which have …

Objectives Using common alcohol consumption categories, to conduct a pooled analysis of
six ongoing large-scale cohort studies in Japan in order to produce concrete estimates of the …

To evaluate the hypothesis that, in terms of all-cause death, drinking alcohol 1–4 days per
week is less harmful than daily (5–7 days/week) drinking of the same quantity of alcohol, a …

Alcohol consumption is known to be a risk factor for breast cancer in Western countries, but
few epidemiologic data have been available in Japan. This population-based prospective …

Although light to moderate alcohol intake may reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD)
mortality, the effect on total mortality requires further study, particularly among young and …