Tag: All-cause Mortality

Drinking Alcohol and All-cause Mortality Risk

All-Cause Mortality Risk What’s the relationship between drinking alcohol and all-cause mortality risk? Does it depend on how much is consumed? On whether it’s beer, wine, or spirits liquors? Focusing on mortality risk from all causes is logical. Many people are more concerned with how long they live than what’s written on their death certificate. …

What do we know about alcohol and health? The first thing to know is that moderate drinkers tend to have better health than either abstainers or heavy drinkers. Significantly, they have fewer heart attacks an strokes. They’re also less likely to have many other diseases. Furthermore, beer, wine and distilled spirits appear to be equally …