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Alcohol and health: Those 2 glasses a day that lengthen your life

A study performed by the Research Laboratories of the Catholic University of Campobasso (Italy), published on Archives of Internal Medicine, confirms the beneficial effects of moderate consumption of alcohol. Not just cardiovascular disease gets advantage from this, but drinking in moderation reduces all-cause mortality. The research assembled 34 studies using the statistic procedure of meta-analysis. In this way it has been possible to examine data concerning over a million of people.

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