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Does Alcohol Prevent Mortality or Does It Just Prevent Coronary Heart Disease?—Reply

Kenneth J. Mukamal, MD, MPH, MA; Stephanie E. Chiuve, ScD; Eric B. Rimm, ScD

Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

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We thank Fink for his personal and professional interest in our work.1 As our analyses were primarily directed at the biological and clinical question of whether alcohol use is related to the occurrence of coronary heart disease, we chose incident coronary disease as our primary outcome. Our article did not, as Fink suggests, provide information on cause-specific mortality, which is a function of both incidence of disease and its case-fatality rate.

With that said, Fink is clearly correct that the relation of alcohol use with total mortality is of obvious import as well and indeed has been addressed at length in a recent meta-analysis published in the Archives.2 We examined the relationship of alcohol use with total mortality in this group of men with healthy lifestyle behaviors, with no censoring for incident nonfatal . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Does Alcohol Prevent Mortality or Does It Just Prevent Coronary Heart Disease?
Daniel J. Fink
Arch Intern Med. 2007;167(9):970.
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Alcohol Consumption and Risk for Coronary Heart Disease in Men With Healthy Lifestyles
Kenneth J. Mukamal, Stephanie E. Chiuve, and Eric B. Rimm
Arch Intern Med. 2006;166(19):2145-2150.
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