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Alcohol consumption in midlife and old age and risk of frailty: Alcohol paradox in a 30-year follow-up study.

Age and ageing - 1 Mar 2018

Strandberg Arto Y, Trygg Teemu, Pitkälä Kaisu H, Strandberg Timo E

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Background: alcohol consumption has many harmful health effects, but also benefits of moderate consumption on frailty have been reported. We examined this relationship longitudinally from midlife to old age. Methods: data of reported alcohol consumption in midlife (year 1974) and in old age (years 2000 and 2003) were available of a socioeconomically homogenous sample of 2360 men (born 1919-34, the Helsinki...

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PMID: 29088316
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afx165

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