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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:729-734
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

Special theme: Alcohol: Reiteration

Commentary: Reflections on alcohol and coronary heart disease

Michael G Marmot

International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1–19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK. E-mail: m.marmot@ucl.ac.uk

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Real authors, as opposed to those of us who write scientific prose, are mixed on the question of re-reading. Some claim not to be able to bear reading their previous writing. Others depend on it. One author finds re-reading what she has just written an essential part of the creative process. Robert Browning when asked to re-read and then interpret one of his poems replied something like: when I wrote that only God and Robert Browning knew what it meant; now only God knows.

I find it odd to re-read, odder still to write a commentary on a paper that I had written more than 16 years ago.1 The infelicities of style set my teeth on edge. The difficulty I had of knowing the difference between a drink and a unit and of calculating precisely how many grams of alcohol are in a bottle of wine are just plain embarrassing. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Criticism and the growth of knowledge

Beverage type

Patterns of drinking

Interaction or effect modification

Policy implications

Afterthoughts


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