Experts discuss the latest studies, definitions of drinks, patterns of consumption and the need for more research
With mounting evidence about the dangers of alcohol to our health, just what is the impact of alcohol on cancer risk? On cardiovascular risk? On overall mortality?
Those questions are answered on this episode of Health Science Radio, which features two University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus professors discussing the latest studies on alcohol and health. The two doctors also talk about the changing patterns of alcohol consumption, current definitions of what constitutes a drink, their own internal conversations about alcohol and the need for more research.
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Said Tyra Fainstad, MD, an associate professor of medicine at the CU School of Medicine, "As a primary care doctor, I feel I'm really lacking that huge, prospective, randomized control trial that is correctly powered and looking at this in the right way. I know that those are in the works, but we don't have a really good one to guide us yet, especially in the area of moderate drinking."
Speaking about the health impacts found in studies so far, Ned Calonge, MD, MPH, a professor of family medicine at the CU School of Medicine and associate dean for public health practice at the Colorado School of Public Health, said, "No evidence of harm is not the same as evidence of no harm."
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