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To the Editor: Thun and coworkers (Dec. 11 issue) ¹ report some benefits of moderate alcohol consumption in nearly 500,000 subjects who were middle-aged or older. This is a large group, but an even larger group was excluded because alcohol consumption was not quantified or data were missing. This creates a problem, because the listed death rates for the excluded subjects with unclassified drinking habits are higher than those in the analytic cohort. We can only guess at the consumption habits of the excluded subjects, but a person unwilling to answer questions about his or her alcohol consumption is more likely . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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