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Alcohol and Alcoholism Advance Access originally published online on October 20, 2005
Alcohol and Alcoholism 2006 41(1):3-4; doi:10.1093/alcalc/agh223
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Medical Council on Alcohol. All rights reserved

EDITORIAL

ALCOHOL AND HYPERTENSION: AN OLD RELATIONSHIP REVISITED

JOSEPH TOMSON and GREGORY YH LIP*

University Department of Medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham B18 7QH, England, UK

* Author to whom correspondence should be addressed at: Tel.: +44 121 554 3801; Fax: +44 121 554 4083; E-mail: G.Y.H.LIP@bham.ac.uk

(Received 4 May 2005; first review notified 11 July 2005; in revised form 20 September 2005; accepted 21 September 2005)

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The American comedian Henny Youngman (1906–1998) once said, ‘When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.’ Ironic, but interestingly as though with a sense of foresight, he did not speak of giving up drinking! It is despite the fact that alcohol is responsible for increased illness, being causally related to more than 60 different medical conditions (Rehm et al., 2003Go). Around 4% of the global disease burden is also thought to be alcohol related, which is comparable with that attributed to the effects of tobacco (4.1%) and high blood pressure (4.4%) (Ezzati et al., 2002Go; WHO, 2002Go).

For most diseases related to alcohol consumption, a dose–response relationship exists with risk of the disease increasing with greater amounts of alcohol intake, with cardiovascular . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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