Sarah Hartz, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, and lead author of the study “Daily Drinking Is Associated with Increased Mortality” published in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. The studies “Alcohol Use and Burden for 195 Countries and Territories, 1990–2016: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” and “Thresholds for Alcohol Consumption: Combined Analysis of Individual-Participant Data for 599,912 Current Drinkers in 83 Prospective Studies” published in The Lancet and “Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Dementia: 23 Year Follow-up of Whitehall II Cohort Study” published in The BMJ.
New research is redefining moderate drinking and who may (and may not) need to abstain altogether.
