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IJE Advance Access originally published online on June 3, 2005
International Journal of Epidemiology 2005 34(4):788-790; doi:10.1093/ije/dyi117
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Commentary: Pattern of drinking and the Russian heart

Robin Room

Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs (SoRAD), Stockholm University, Sveaplan, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. E-mail: robin.room@sorad.su.se

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Our knowledge about alcohol consumption levels and drinking patterns in Russia is steadily increasing and the paper by Nilssen and colleagues in this issue of the IJE1 makes a valuable addition to the developing store of literature. As discussed in the paper, a better understanding of the patterns and the trends of alcohol consumption is important for understanding the determinants of trends in cardiovascular disease (CVD); but the significance extends beyond this. Our best gauge of the effects of alcohol on the health of Russians in general is what happened in 1985–1988, during the period of a major anti-alcohol campaign in the former Soviet Union. During that period, the Soviet Union was still intact, and there was little of the massive and complex social and economic changes that . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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