... Alcohol drinking Information bias Abstainer misclassification Drinking pattern Confounding factors Many risk factors, such as alcohol consumption (AC), exhibit a J-shaped association when plotting health effects like mortality on the vertical axis against the magnitude of the risk factor...

... Alcohol drinking Coronary heart disease risk factors All-cause mortality J-shaped dose-response-relationship Dr Zukel added that it would not be appropriate “to have such a manuscript with these unsupportable conclusions co-authored from the staff of the NHLI.” He urged that an article be produced...