Moderate drinking, psychological factors, and cardiovascular protection

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What Is Moderate Drinking?

Although the benefits and risks associated with moderate drinking have gained increasing attention in recent years from both researchers and the general public, no universal definition of moderate drinking exists. Most currently used definitions are based on a certain number of drinks consumed in a specific time period. Defining a “drink,” however, also is difficult because alcoholic beverages ...

Psychological Distress and Problem Drinking.

We examine the influence of harmful alcohol use on mental health using a flexible two-step instrumental variables approach and household survey data from nine countries of the former Soviet Union. Using alcohol advertisements to instrument for alcohol, we show that problem drinking has a large detrimental effect on psychological distress, with problem drinkers exhibiting a 42% increase in the n...

What is moderate drinking? Defining "drinks" and drinking levels.

Although the benefits and risks associated with moderate drinking have gained increasing attention in recent years from both researchers and the general public, no universal definition of moderate drinking exists. Most currently used definitions are based on a certain number of drinks consumed in a specific time period. Defining a "drink," however, also is difficult because alcoholic beverages ...

Risk and benefit of combined moderate and binge drinking on cardiovascular diseases (CVD)

1. Relevance to the call for proposals: The health effect of alcohol consumption pattern (moderate and binge drinking) is of significant public health relevance because alcohol consumption in Norway and other countries in Northern Europe have been increasing since 2000. Furthermore, the consumption pattern is changing from binge drinking towards moderate regular intake. Norway is in a fortunate...