ReviewAmerican journal of public health2016
Key Findings on Alcohol Consumption and a Variety of Health Outcomes From the Nurses' Health Study.
Review in American journal of public health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
49 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 112 citations in OpenAlex.
- Beverage consumption on bone and joint disorders: an umbrella review.Journal of global health · 2025Pooled it
- Designing Effective Alcohol Warnings: Consumer Reactions to Icons and Health Topics.American journal of preventive medicine · 2023Trial
- Bone health in patients with cancer: a SEOM-SEIOMM consensus review of risk factors, assessment strategies, and management approaches.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026Review
- Health effects associated with alcohol consumption: a Burden of Proof study.Nature health · 2026Article
- Are the ways women cope with stressors related to their health behaviors over time?Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2025Article
- Characteristics of non-drinking and drinking adults in Taiwan and their implications in alcohol epidemiological studies.PloS one · 2025Article
- Alcohol and colorectal cancer risk, subclassified by mutational signatures of DNA mismatch repair deficiency.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2024Article
- Smoking and Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Incident Diverticulitis in Women.Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association · 2024Article
- Risk of diabetes and hypertension in a population with alcohol use disorders.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Pirfenidone ameliorates alcohol-induced promotion of breast cancer in mice.Frontiers in oncology · 2024Article
- Drinking alcohol in moderation is associated with lower rate of all-cause mortality in individuals with higher rather than lower educational level: findings from the MORGAM project.European journal of epidemiology · 2023Article
- The impact of COVID-19 on the changes in health behaviours among Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities in the United Kingdom (UK): a scoping review.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Poor glycemic control and associated factors among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Adherence to the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research cancer prevention recommendations throughout the life course and risk of colorectal cancer precursors.British journal of cancer · 2023Article
- Adolescent- and adult-initiated alcohol exposure in mice differentially promotes tumorigenesis and metastasis of breast cancer.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2023Article
- Article
- Alcohol Withdrawal and the Associated Mood Disorders-A Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Cognitive decline and alcohol consumption in the aging population-A longitudinal analysis of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2022Article
- Alcohol, Drinking Pattern, and Chronic Disease.Nutrients · 2022Review
- Excessive alcohol consumption and the risk of knee osteoarthritis: a prospective study from the Osteoarthritis Initiative.Osteoarthritis and cartilage · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
objectivesTo review critical contributions from the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) on alcohol consumption and health outcomes.
methodsWe performed a narrative review of NHS (1980-2012) and NHS II (1989-2011) publications.
resultsUsing detailed information on self-reported alcohol drinking patterns obtained approximately every 4 years combined with extensive information on diet, lifestyle habits, and physician-diagnosed health conditions, NHS investigators have prospectively examined the risks and benefits associated with alcohol consumption. Moderate intake, defined as up to 1 drink a day, is associated with a lower risk of hypertension, myocardial infarction, stroke, sudden cardiac death, gallstones, cognitive decline, and all-cause mortality. However, even moderate intake places women at higher risk for breast cancer and bone fractures, and higher intake increases risk for colon polyps and colon cancer.
conclusionsRegular alcohol intake has both risks and benefits. In analyses using repeated assessments of alcohol over time and deaths from all causes, women with low to moderate intake and regular frequency (> 3 days/week) had the lowest risk of mortality compared with abstainers and women who consumed substantially more than 1 drink per day.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.