Alcohol consumption, genetic variants in alcohol deydrogenases, and risk of cardiovascular diseases: a prospective study and meta-analysis.

OBJECTIVE: First, to investigate and compare associations between alcohol consumption and variants in alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) genes with incidence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in a large German cohort. Second, to quantitatively summarize available evidence of prospective studies on polymorph...

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Main Authors: Dagmar Drogan, Abigail J Sheldrick, Madlen Schütze, Sven Knüppel, Frank Andersohn, Romina di Giuseppe, Bianca Herrmann, Stefan N Willich, Edeltraut Garbe, Manuela M Bergmann, Heiner Boeing, Cornelia Weikert
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3283737?pdf=render