The association between alcohol consumption and mortality: the Swedish Women's Lifestyle and Health cohort study

Introduction: Alcohol consumption is common in many Western societies. Its role in women's health is, however, not well understood, in particular the role of light-to-moderate alcohol intake, which has been proposed to protect against cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality but not against cancer mortality. Methods: We studied the relations of alcohol consumption to total mortality and mortality from specific causes in the Swedish Women's Lifestyle and Health Study, a cohort of 47,921 women aged 29 to 49 years residing in Sweden at baseline in 1991/1992 who were followed up to 2006. We estimated relative risks (R…