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Alcohol intake, wine consumption and the development of depression: the PREDIMED study
Alfredo
Gea,
Juan
J
Beunza,
Ramón
Estruch,
Almudena
Sánchez-Villegas,
Jordi
Salas-Salvadó,
Pilar
Buil-Cosiales,
Enrique
Gómez-Gracia,
María-Isabel
Covas,
Dolores
Corella,
Miquel
Fiol,
Fernando
Arós,
José
Lapetra,
Rosa-María
Lamuela-Raventós,
Julia
Wärnberg,
Xavier
Pintó,
Lluis
Serra-Majem,
Miguel
A
Martínez-González,
BMC Medicine 2013, 11:192 (30 August 2013)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
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Editor’s summary
Moderate consumption of alcohol, specifically wine, is associated with lower incidence of depression in a Mediterranean population, suggesting that those who drink two to seven drinks per week may be less likely to be depressed in comparison to abstainers. |
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The cost-effectiveness of increasing alcohol taxes: a modelling study
Matthijs
van den Berg,
Pieter
HM
van Baal,
Luqman
Tariq,
Albertine
J
Schuit,
G
de Wit,
Rudolf
T
Hoogenveen
BMC Medicine 2008, 6:36 (28 November 2008)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
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Editor’s summary
By decreasing alcohol consumption, a chronic disease model predicts that alcohol taxation leads to health benefits and savings in healthcare costs, thereby serving as a cost-effective policy instrument.
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The effect of acetaminophen (four grams a day for three consecutive days) on hepatic tests in alcoholic patients – a multicenter randomized study
EK
Kuffner,
JL
Green,
GM
Bogdan,
PC
Knox,
RB
Palmer,
K
Heard,
JT
Slattery,
RC
Dart
BMC Medicine 2007, 5:13 (30 May 2007)
Abstract | Full text | PDF | PubMed
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Editor’s summary
Despite hepatic failure being associated with the use of acetaminophen, newly abstinent alcoholics treated with the maximum recommended daily therapeutic dose do not have increased serum measures of liver injury.
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