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| 8/31/2010 |
Study: Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers
(Austin, TX) -- Heavy drinkers tend to live longer than nondrinkers. That's the surprising conclusion of a paper published in the journal "Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research." The study conducted by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin notes the reasons for the findings are not entirely clear. However, the research suggests abstaining from alcohol tends to increase a person's risk of dying prematurely. The study of more than 18-hundred participants, between the ages of 55 and 65, over a 20-year period, found higher mortality rates among abstainers than among heavy drinkers. Moderate drinkers had the lowest overall mortality rates. Despite the findings, the authors of the paper cautioned that many serious risks are associated with addiction to alcohol.< |
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