Drinking moderate amounts of alcohol may not have the health benefits of long life that have been previously asserted, due to flaws in research methods.
The latest findings should caution researchers and the public to reconsider the existing evidence and the popular notion that moderate drinking is good for general health.
Several previous studies have demonstrated that drinking moderate amounts of alcohol seems to reduce mortality.
However, the authors point out that those studies have a methodological flaw: they generally compare drinkers with nondrinkers, but fail to distinguish between those who never drank alcohol and those who quit drinking for health reasons.
Lumping nondrinkers with ill health into the group that abstains from alcohol entirely may produce findings of an elevated mortality risk seemingly associated with not drinking. Read more...
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