Background The relationship between alcohol consumption and ischaemic heart disease
(IHD) risk is complex and several issues remain unresolved because many studies used …

OBJECTIVE: We determined and compared acute effects of different alcoholic beverages on
oxygen-induced increase in oxidative stress plasma marker and arterial stiffness in healthy …

Although cardiovascular disease mortality rates seem to decline, especially among middle-
aged people in developed countries, the prevalence of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) …

Objective: Misclassification of self-reported lifetime abstainers from alcohol has been shown
to bias studies that examine the long-term health effects of alcohol, notably the health …

Background Rates of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality are greater in heavy alcoholics
than in either teetotallers or light-to-moderate drinkers. Objective On the assumption that …

Determining the proportion of avoidable disease burden attributable to substance use is
important for both policy development and intervention implementation. Current …

This study compares the relationship between drinking profiles and self‐rated health with
and without adjusting for other determinants of health among a sample of older adults from …

Numerous epidemiological studies, numbering nearly 100, have documented an inverse
association between alcohol consumption and vascular risk. The preponderance of …

Aims This paper presents examples to illustrate the utility and limitations in the use of
epidemiology in alcohol research and discusses some promising new directions. Methods …