ArticleDrug and alcohol review2015
Has industry funding biased studies of the protective effects of alcohol on cardiovascular disease? A preliminary investigation of prospective cohort studies.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The Ubiquitous Experience of Alcohol Industry Involvement in Science: Findings From a Qualitative Interview Study.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2022Article
- The 'snowball effect': short and long-term consequences of early career alcohol industry research funding.Addiction research & theory · 2022Article
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- Alcohol, cardiovascular disease and industry funding: A co-authorship network analysis of systematic reviews.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
- Declared funding and authorship by alcohol industry actors in the scientific literature: a bibliometric study.European journal of public health · 2020Article
- Advancing public health policy making through research on the political strategies of alcohol industry actors.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2020Article
- Alcohol Industry Involvement in the Moderate Alcohol and Cardiovascular Health Trial.American journal of public health · 2020Article
- Reassessing policy paradigms: A comparison of the global tobacco and alcohol industries.Global public health · 2018Article
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- Weak evidence on nalmefene creates dilemmas for clinicians and poses questions for regulators and researchers.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2016Review
- Alcohol harm reduction: corporate capture of a key concept.PLoS medicine · 2014Article
- The alcohol industry, charities and policy influence in the UK.European journal of public health · 2014Article
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION AND
aimsThere have been no previous quantitative analyses of the possible effects of industry funding on alcohol and health research. This study examines whether findings of alcohol's protective effects on cardiovascular disease may be biased by industry funding. DESIGN AND
methodsFindings from a recent systematic review of prospective cohort studies were combined with public domain data on alcohol industry funding. The six outcomes evaluated were alcohol's effects on cardiovascular disease mortality, incident coronary heart disease, coronary heart disease mortality, incident stroke, stroke mortality and mortality from all causes.
resultsWe find no evidence of possible funding effects for outcomes other than stroke. Whether studies find alcohol to be a risk factor or protective against incident stroke depends on whether or not there is possible industry funding [risk ratio (RR) 1.07 (0.97-1.17) for those without concern about industry funding compared with RR 0.88 (0.81-0.94)]. For stroke mortality, a similar difference is not statistically significant, most likely because there are too few studies. DISCUSSION AND
conclusionsDedicated high-quality studies of possible alcohol industry funding effects should be undertaken, and these should be broad in scope. They also need to investigate specific areas of concern, such as stroke, in greater depth.
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