Health Benefits of Moderate Drinking Questioned

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Many previous studies suggesting that moderate drinking helps prevent

heart disease may be flawed, says a report by a group of researchers

from Australia, Canada and the United States.

They analyzed 54 studies that looked at the association between

drinking and risk of premature death from all causes, including heart

disease. The new report concluded that many of those studies did not

account for the effects of age and illness that make abstainers have

higher death rates than moderate drinkers.

The findings appear online in advance of the May issue of the journal

Addiction Research and Theory.