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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hommel, Marc
• Jaillard, Assia

Titel

Alcohol for Stroke Prevention?

Ist Teil von

• The New England journal of medicine, 1999-11, Vol.341 (21), p.1605-1606

Ort / Verlag

United States: Massachusetts Medical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

Quelle

EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Cerebrovascular disease accounts for a substantial worldwide burden of death and disability. In addition to well-established risk factors such as hypertension, myocardial infarction, diabetes mellitus, and smoking, 1 an increasing body of evidence suggests that lifestyle factors contribute to the risk of stroke. In this issue of the Journal, Berger et al. 2 report, on the basis of their study of U.S. male physicians 40 to 84 years of age who were participants in the Physicians' Health Study, that light-to-moderate alcohol consumption may prevent stroke. The overall relative risk of stroke was 0.79 (95 percent confidence interval, 0.66 to 0.94) for those . . .