@article{ref1,
title="Alcohol and mortality: is there a U-shaped relation in elderly people?",
journal="Age and ageing",
year="1998",
author="Grønbaek, M. and Deis, A. and Becker, U. and Hein, H. O. and Schnohr, P. and Jensen, G. and Borch-Johnsen, K. and Sørensen, T. I.",
volume="27",
number="6",
pages="739-744",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: to assess the relation between alcohol intake and mortality among seven cohorts of middle-aged and elderly Danes. DESIGN: Prospective population study with baseline assessment of alcohol- and tobacco consumption, educational level and body mass index, and a mean of 11.5 years follow-up of mortality. SUBJECTS: 16304 men and women aged 50 years or more. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: number and time of deaths from 1974 to 1995 as ascertained by the national central person register. RESULTS: the effect of alcohol intake on mortality did not differ between middle-aged (50-64 years, mean = 56.6 years) and elderly subjects (>64 years old, mean = 69.9 years). There was a U-shaped risk function in both age groups, which persisted also when adjusting for age, sex, smoking habits, level of education and body mass index. Abstaining women had a relative risk of 1.29 (95% confidence limits 1.17-1.42) as compared with light drinkers (1-6 (drinks per week), while the relative risk for abstaining men was 1.22 (95% confidence limits; 1.08 to 1.37) as compared with light drinkers. Heavy drinking women (>28 drinks per week) had a relative risk of 1.23 (95% confidence limits; 0.85 to 1.78) and heavy drinking men (more than 69 drinks per week) had a relative risk of 2.11 (95% confidence limits 1.66-2.69), both compared with light drinkers. CONCLUSION: among the middle-aged and elderly women and men, a light alcohol intake is associated with lower mortality than abstention or heavy drinking.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0002-0729",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}