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Moderate alcohol use and reduced mortality risk: Systematic error in prospective studies

Kaye Middleton Fillmore Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, Box 0612, San Francisco, CA 94148-0612Correspondence[email protected]
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William C. Kerr Alcohol Research Group, 2000 Hearst Avenue, Suite 300, Berkeley, California 94709-2130
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Tim Stockwell Centre for Addictions Research of British Columbia, University of Victoria, PO Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2, Canada
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Tanya Chikritzhs National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845, Australia
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Alan Bostrom Department of Epidemology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, Box 0840, San Francisco, CA
Pages 101-132 | Received 14 Nov 2005, Published online: 20 Aug 2009

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