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J Epidemiol Community Health 2009;63:33 doi:10.1136/jech.2009.096719g
  • Thursday 10 September, Parallel session B
  • Alcohol

Alcohol consumption and the U-shape relationship with mortality: 8-year follow-up of more than 6000 older men in the Whitehall study

  1. N. Bhala,
  2. J. Emberson,
  3. R. Clarke
  1. Clinical Trial Service Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

      Objective

      To assess the relevance of alcohol consumption for cause-specific mortality in old age.

      Design

      Prospective cohort study of 6157 older men (mean age: 77 yrs) followed for cause-specific mortality for an average of 8 years.

      Methods

      Current and past alcohol consumption were collected by means of a postal questionnaire in 1997/98 among surviving participants in the 1970 Whitehall study of London Civil Servants. Mortality rates in each of six alcohol consumption groups (including a group …

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