This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in JAMA  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

W. P. Castelli, MD

JAMA. 1979;242(18):2000.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Alcohol has been the subject of much debate throughout the ages, and it continues to stimulate much of the same. The effects of alcohol are not all to one side of the medical issue. Indeed, recently there has been quite a bit of data to suggest that alcohol may have a beneficial effect on atherosclerosis, which may be seen in a lower rate of coronary heart disease (CHD) in some settings. Elsewhere in this issue (p 1973), Hennekens et al, in a novel approach toward reducing bias in a case-control study, have reported that alcohol has a protective effect against coronary disease. In addition, their study is one of the first to show that the good effect of drinking can be got from beer, wine, or spirits.

Just how alcohol lowers the CHD rate is yet to be unraveled. At present the story seems to go as follows: Alcohol increases . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
National Institutes of Health National Heart Institute Framingham, Mass

Footnotes
Address editorial communications to the Editor, 535 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60610.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?