Annals of Epidemiology
Volume 17, Issue 5, Supplement , Pages S63-S67 , May 2007

Alcohol Drinking and Total Mortality Risk

  • Arthur L. Klatsky, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Arthur L. Klatsky, MD, Senior Consultant in Cardiology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, 280 W MacArthur Blvd. Oakland, CA 94611.
    • ,
  • Natalia Udaltsova, PhD

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 Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Program of Research Integrating Substance Use in Mainstream Healthcare and by a grant from the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute. Data collection during the period 1978–1985 was supported by the Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, MD.

PII: S1047-2797(07)00016-6

doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2007.01.014

Annals of Epidemiology
Volume 17, Issue 5, Supplement , Pages S63-S67 , May 2007

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