ReviewCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien1997
Moderate drinking and health. Implications of recent evidence.
Review in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 1997. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Cross-Sectional Study of Self-Rated Health among Older Adults: Association with Drinking Profiles and Other Determinants of Health.Current gerontology and geriatrics research · 2015Article
- Association of individual network social capital with abdominal adiposity, overweight and obesity.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2009Article
- Formative evaluation and three-month follow-up of an online personalized assessment feedback intervention for problem drinkers.Journal of medical Internet research · 2006Article
- Long-term cognitive effects of drinking.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 1997Article
- Low-risk drinking guidelines: the scientific evidence.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publiqueReview
- Do Ontarians drink in moderation? a baseline assessment against Canadian low risk drinking guidelines.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publiqueArticle
- Review of Canadian low-risk drinking guidelines and their effectiveness.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publiqueReview
- Lifestyle-Related Behavior and Self-Reported Health Status Among Seventh-Day Adventists.American journal of lifestyle medicineArticle
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveTo address three questions (Is moderate drinking good for health? Should people drink to prevent heart disease? What is moderate drinking?) and to examine and compare two recent Canadian guidelines on low-risk drinking in the context of counseling patients. DATA SOURCES: English-language data sources were searched, particularly peer-reviewed health and social science literature and recent expert reports. STUDY SELECTION: Studies and reports were selected for their scientific merit and direct relevance to the three questions addressed and to the formulation of guidelines on low-risk drinking. SYNTHESIS: While moderate drinking might protect some older people against coronary heart disease, it is associated with increased risk of hemorrhagic stroke, certain cancers, accidents and injuries, and a range of social problems. For most health outcomes, risk increases as consumption of alcohol increases.
conclusionsWhile the data have limitations, they provide a basis for formulating guidelines on low-risk drinking. The two Canadian guidelines, one developed from the perspective of health recovery, the other from the perspective of health promotion, complement each other in the context of counseling patients.
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