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ArticleBMC medicine2023

The relationship between alcohol consumption and health: J-shaped or less is more?

Min-Kuang Tsai, Wayne Gao, Chi-Pang Wen

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Article in BMC medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from 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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. A Short Questionnaire for Evaluating Mediterranean Diet Adherence and Nutritional Sustainability: Validation in Turkish Adults.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2026
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  8. The Link between Alcohol Consumption and Kidney Injury.The American journal of pathology · 2026
    Review
  9. Detecting Non-linear Dependence through Genome Wide Analysis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
    Article
  10. Alcoholic cardiomyopathy: an update.European heart journal · 2024
    Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Min-Kuang TsaiProgram in Global Health and Health Security, College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wuxing Street, 110, Taipei, Taiwan.
Wayne GaoProgram in Global Health and Health Security, College of Public Health, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wuxing Street, 110, Taipei, Taiwan. waynegao@tmu.edu.tw.ORCID 0000-0002-6083-5849
Chi-Pang WenInstitute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli, Taiwan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Alcohol DrinkingAdultCause of DeathHumansProspective StudiesRisk FactorsAlcohol consumptionCohort studyDisease burdenJ-shaped relationshipMortalityRisk factor

Identifiers

PMID37400823
PMCPMC10318728

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