Contemporary Drug Problems articles from March 1994

Contemporary Drug Problems archives from March 1994

Cardiovascular disease and alcohol consumption: evidence of benefit from epidemiological studies. (Moderate Drinking and Health: The Scientific Evidence)
March 22, 1994... This article examines the question "Are there specific health benefits from moderate drinking on cardiovascular disease risk?" The epidemiological evidence is reviewed, focusing primarily on recent studies that examine possible alternative...

Moderate drinking and the cardiovascular system: risk factors. (Moderate Drinking and Health: The Scientific Evidence)
March 22, 1994... Chronic consumption of large amounts of alcohol adversely affects the central nervous system, the liver, the pancreas, the reticuloendothelial system, and the cardiovascular system, among others. Alcohol-induced disorders of the cardiovascular...

Biological mechanisms at moderate levels of alcohol consumption that may affect coronary heart disease. (Moderate Drinking and Health: The Scientific Evidence)
March 22, 1994... The aims of the present article are to present a framework for understanding the ways in which various alcohol-related mechanisms might fit into current hypotheses of coronary artery disease (CAD) and to consider whether proposed...

Limitations of data and design in studies on moderate drinking and health. (Moderate Drinking and Health: The Scientific Evidence)
March 22, 1994... The literature on moderate drinking and health, largely focusing on all-cause mortality and coronary heart disease, is extensive, and findings are moderately consistent. Still, the reduction in risk among moderate drinkers compared with...

Diet and alcohol in heart disease risk: the French Paradox. (Moderate Drinking and Health: The Scientific Evidence)
March 22, 1994... Although the separate influences of alcohol and dietary factors on coronary heart disease (CHD) risk have been researched extensively,(1)(2) few studies have examined the effects of their interaction. Such studies are difficult to perform; they...

Tobacco use, the health effects of moderate alcohol drinking, and the assessment of their interaction. (Moderate Drinking and Health: The Scientific Evidence)
March 22, 1994... Although cigarette smoking has become a routine control variable in epidemiological research, we have found that the routine analytical procedures can fial to detect the relationship between cigarette smoking and the variables of particular...

The other health benefits of moderate alcohol intake. (Moderate Drinking and Health: The Scientific Evidence)
March 22, 1994... Why have generations of human beings ingested alcoholic beverages despite the obvious risks? It is fairly obvious that moderate alcohol intake decreases coronary heart disease incidence and mortality. However, drinking was a popular pastime...

Conditions and diseases other than cardiovascular associated with moderate alcohol consumption. (Moderate Drinking and Health: The Scientific Evidence)
March 22, 1994... Alcohol consumption is associated with a diverse range of conditions that result in substantial morbidity and mortality. This paper reviews the conditions other than cardiovascular diseases that may be affected by moderate alcohol consumption....

Moderate drinking and traffic crashes: a case for health or for safety? (Moderate Drinking and Health: The Scientific Evidence)
March 22, 1994... Traffic crashes constitute a major cause of injury and death in Canada today. In 1990, in Canada, motor vehicle crashes ranked second for both males and females as the leading cause of death as measured by average potential years of life lost...

Alcohol and the heart: implications of present epidemiologic knowledge. (Moderate Drinking and Health: The Scientific Evidence)
March 22, 1994... A large number of case-control and prospective observational studies from around the world lend solid support to the hypothesis that light to moderate levels of alcohol consumption result in a modest but consistent reduction in coronary heart...

Are there net health benefits from moderate drinking?: all-cause mortality. (Moderate Drinking and Health: The Scientific Evidence)
March 22, 1994... The paper focuses on the relationship between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality. Two questions will be asked. First, are there net health benefits from moderate drinking for an individual's risk of death? Second, are there net...

Are there net health benefits from moderate alcohol consumption?: morbidity and other parameters of health. (Moderate Drinking and Health: The Scientific Evidence)
March 22, 1994... Death is an all-or-nothing phenomenon and is therefore easy to ascertain and measure. Human health and morbidity are more difficult to define and quantify, since they represent a broad spectrum of conditions from perfect health to death and...

Alcohol, breast cancer, and causal inference: where ethics meets epidemiology. (Moderate Drinking and Health: The Scientific Evidence)
March 22, 1994... The purpose of this article is to describe how contemporary bioethics relates to the purpose and scope of a consideration of moderate drinking and health. Obviously, this is too broad a mandate to be covered in one article. As discussed below,...