title: [Beer, wine, spirits and mortality. Results from a prospective population study].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The aim of the present population-based cohort study was to examine the association between alcohol intake and mortality from all causes, coronary heart disease, and cancer.
  
  
  METHODS
  A prospective population study with baseline assessment of beer, wine and spirit consumption, smoking habits, educational level, physical activity, and body mass index in a total of 257,859 person-years follow-up on mortality.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 4833 participants died, 1075 of these from coronary heart disease and 1552 of cancer. Compared with non-drinkers, light drinkers, who avoided wine, had a relative risk of death from all causes of 0.90 (0.82-0.99) and those who drank wine had a relative risk of 0.66 (0.55-0.77). Heavy drinkers, who avoided wine, were at higher risk of death from all causes than were heavy drinkers, who included wine in their alcohol consumption. Wine drinkers had a significantly lower mortality from both coronary heart disease and cancer than had non-wine drinkers (p = 0.007 and p = 0.004, respectively).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A moderate consumption of wine may have a beneficial effect on all causes of mortality, which is additive to that of alcohol. This effect may be attributable to a reduction in death from both coronary heart disease and cancer.
authors.affiliation: H:S Kommunehospitalet, Hovedstadens Center for Prospektive Befolkningsstudier, og Center for Epidemiologisk Grundforskning ved Institut for Sygdomsforebyggelse.
authors.forename: M N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Grønbaek
authors.forename: P U
authors.initials: PU
authors.lastname: Becker
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Johansen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gottschau
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schnohr
authors.forename: H O
authors.initials: HO
authors.lastname: Hein
authors.forename: G B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.forename: T I
authors.initials: TI
authors.lastname: Sørensen
mesh_terms: D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000401:mortality; D001515:Beer / Q000009:adverse effects; D002423:Cause of Death; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000401:mortality; D003718:Denmark / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009026:Mortality; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014920:Wine / Q000009:adverse effects