Moderate alcohol use and reduced mortality risk: systematic error in prospective studies and new hypotheses.

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Published in Ann Epidemiol on May 01, 2007

Authors

Kaye Middleton Fillmore1, Tim Stockwell, Tanya Chikritzhs, Alan Bostrom, William Kerr

Author Affiliations

1: University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. kmfalc@itsa.ucsf.edu

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