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J-shaped curve

& alcohol

April 2025

General health
,
J-shaped curve
,
Moderate drinking

Alcohol consumption has a J-shaped association with bacterial infection and death due to infection

August 2024

All-cause mortality
,
J-shaped curve

Volume of alcohol intake, heavy episodic drinking, and all-cause mortality in Spain

May 2024

All-cause mortality
,
J-shaped curve

To drink (moderately) or not to drink by Erik Skovenborg

November 2023

Diabetes
,
J-shaped curve

The relationship between alcohol consumption, BMI, and type 2 diabetes

October 2023

Heart
,
J-shaped curve
,
Metabolic syndrome/weight

Association between alcohol consumption and ectopic fat in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

September 2023

Critique
Heart
,
J-shaped curve

Alcohol intake including wine drinking is associated with decreased platelet reactivity in a large population sample

July 2023

J-shaped curve

The relationship between alcohol consumption and health: J-shaped or less is more?

December 2022

All-cause mortality
,
J-shaped curve

Are U-shaped relationships between risk factors and outcomes artifactual?

December 2022

All-cause mortality
,
J-shaped curve

Is drinking wine in moderation good for health or not?

December 2021

Critique
J-shaped curve

Dealing with previous alcohol exposure among “current non-drinkers” in epidemiologic studies testing the J-shaped curve

September 2021

J-shaped curve

Dose–response relationships between levels of alcohol use and risks of mortality or disease, for all people, by age, sex, and specific risk factors

September 2021

Diabetes
,
J-shaped curve
,
Women

Association of habitual alcohol consumption with long-term risk of type 2 diabetes among women with a history of gestational diabetes

March 2021

J-shaped curve

Benefits and hazards of alcohol − the J-shaped curve and public health

March 2021

J-shaped curve

The J-shaped curve − conceptual and methodological challenge

December 2019

Antioxidants
,
J-shaped curve

Beer and its non-alcoholic compounds in health and disease

November 2019

Antioxidants
,
J-shaped curve

BBC article – Can wine ever be good for you? 

October 2019

The brain
,
J-shaped curve
,
Old age

J-curve association between alcohol intake and varicose veins in Japan 

August 2019

Critique
Cancer
,
J-shaped curve

A J-shaped curve for the relation of alcohol consumption to the risk of colorectal cancer

April 2019

J-shaped curve
,
Stroke

Relationships between alcohol Intake and ischemic stroke severity in sex stratified analysis for Japanese acute stroke patients

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